M 4.7 in Samoa on 30 Aug 2020 10:52 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1232350
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.0927 , -173.4816
Event Date: 30 Aug 2020 10:52 UTC
29 Aug 2020 22:52 Local
Exposed Population:
About 300 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Aug 2020 11:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bf0n Scaled population (vector) 1.52  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 5 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Further tsunami detection buoys deployedMon, 31 Aug 2020 01:50:00 +0200.

Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters and Civil Defence Minister Peeni Henare welcome the deployment of five more DART (Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami) buoys. "We are pleased to deliver a lifesaving line of defence, built
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MIL-OSI New Zealand: Further tsunami detection buoys deployedMon, 31 Aug 2020 01:35:00 +0200.

Source: New Zealand Government. Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters and Civil Defence Minister Peeni Henare welcome the deployment of five more DART (Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami) buoys. “We are pleased to deliver a li
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Further Tsunami Detection Buoys DeployedMon, 31 Aug 2020 01:17:00 +0200.

Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters and Civil Defence Minister Peeni Henare welcome the deployment of five more DART (Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami) buoys. “We are pleased to deliver a lifesaving line of defence, built
...(more)
More than 430,000 Kiwis live in tsunami evacuation zonesWed, 19 Aug 2020 04:25:00 +0200.

The first two decades of the 21st century have highlighted the risks posed around the world by tsunami. The most deadly was the Indian Ocean tsunami on Boxing Day 2004, caused by a massive earthquake near Indonesia. That is estimated to hav
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),