M 5.9 in Samoa on 25 Oct 2020 11:47 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 1240864
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 32.73 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.3542 , -173.4669
Event Date: 25 Oct 2020 11:47 UTC
24 Oct 2020 23:47 Local
Exposed Population: About 800 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Oct 2020 16:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ccyh Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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

samoa Quakes shake nation amid weather warnings By Soli Wilson, 26/10/ ... Mon, 26 Oct 2020 06:41:00 +0100.

No tsunami warning was triggered by two major earthquakes Samoa felt early on Monday morning, only three minutes apart. The first was at 1:47 a.m. with a magnitude of 6.7, occurring in the Samoa region. The tremor was 10 kilometres deep and
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samoa No tsunami threat to Samoa By Talaia Mika, 20/10/2020Tue, 20 Oct 2020 07:26:00 +0200.

The Samoa Meteorology Service has advised that a 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck the Alaska region Tuesday morning did not pose a tsunami threat. The earthquake had a depth of 41km and was located 7,694.69 kilometres north of Apia. In
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samoa Sunday tremor registers 4.3 on Richter Scale By Tina Mata'afa-Tu ... Mon, 05 Oct 2020 20:21:00 +0200.

An earthquake that registered 4.3 on the Richter Scale shook homes on Sunday afternoon but it did not generate a tsunami. This according to the Samoa Meteorological Service who published a “Felt Earthquake Bulletin” on Sunday. According to
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samoa Memory of tragedy outweighs elderly father's struggles By Adel F ... Sun, 04 Oct 2020 02:40:00 +0200.

An elderly father scrimps and saves to raise a family on the fruits of his plantation inside the most modest of houses - but no matter how tough life gets, he will always have feelings of gratitude. Limatasi Masala was tending to his planta
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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),