M 5.4 in Samoa on 08 Sep 2020 08:28 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 1233529
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.1768 , -172.9244
Event Date: 08 Sep 2020 08:28 UTC
07 Sep 2020 20:28 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Sep 2020 08:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bjlb Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 6 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Mobilizing The Pacific Diaspora: A Key Component Of Disaster Resilienc ... Fri, 04 Sep 2020 04:09:00 +0200.

By Siautu Alefaio* Of all the earth’s regions, the Pacific is one of the most prone to natural disasters. Climate-related disasters such as floods, droughts, and tropical cyclones make the headlines, along with other natural disasters such
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Strong earthquake - South Island, New Zealand - September 3, 2020Thu, 03 Sep 2020 16:23:00 +0200.

Quakes like today's are the result of stresses being released within the Pacific Plate as it dives westwards beneath the Indo-Australian Plate. This setting is part of the longer Tonga-Kermadec-Hikurangi Arc, where the Pacific Plate subduct
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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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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),