1400 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.samoanews.com/local-news/american-samoans-comment-tuesdays-61-earthquakePago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 occurred about 134 miles Southwest of Tutuila at 5:06 a.m yesterday The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a statement a few minutes later saying that, “based on all available data, there is no tsunami threat to American Samoa from this earthquake.Wed, 18 Mar 2020 21:10:00 +0100samoanews-b7628c692cd6ab67fc425c14368d82e020200318211000https://www.samoaobserver.ws/category/samoa/59991Samoa was awakened on Wednesday morning by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake at around 6am local time. The Samoa Meteorological Office advised in a post on their Facebook page that the tremor was approximately 10km deep in the Samoa region, occurring 241 km south south west of Apia.Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:48:00 +0100samoaobserver-2eed1f46b4e63ebecf17b8fa3ad226dc20200318064800https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/samoa-shaken-5-8-magnitude-earthquakeSeismograph recording the seismic activity of an earthquake (file picture). Source: istock.com The magnitude 5.8 quake stuck south of the Pacific Island nation in the Tongan Trench at 5.06am NZT. 1 NEWS spoke to a New Zealand couple living in Apia who said the quake woke them up and they could hear it rumbling.Wed, 18 Mar 2020 04:49:00 +0100tvnz-4691cc8a1449b946c9abb7f13b56ceed20200318044900https://www.samoanews.com/local-news/no-tsunami-threat-american-samoa-after-early-morning-earthquakePago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 occurred about 134 miles Southwest of Tutuila Island at 5:06am, this morning, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Based on all available data from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Honolulu ~ THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO AMERICAN SAMOA FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE.Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:33:00 +0100samoanews-496ab4cb43669cce13328bf9a92f697920200317203300