M 5.1 in Samoa on 29 Sep 2020 19:01 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 1237393
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.1406 , -174.0591
Event Date: 29 Sep 2020 19:01 UTC
29 Sep 2020 07:01 Local
Exposed Population:
About 800 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Sep 2020 20:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000c2tc Scaled population (vector) 1.93  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),