M 4.6 in Samoa on 05 May 2021 05:05 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 1267537
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 67.89 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.5822 , -173.578
Event Date: 05 May 2021 05:05 UTC
04 May 2021 17:05 Local
Exposed Population:
About 800 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 May 2021 05:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000e08x Scaled population (vector) 3.23  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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),