M 6.2 in Samoa on 22 Mar 2026 15:27 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 1530488
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.1719 , -172.5084
Event Date: 22 Mar 2026 15:27 UTC
22 Mar 2026 03:27 Local
Exposed Population: 170 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 22 Mar 2026 15:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.1 0.1
us6000sii0 Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0.12m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0.12m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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 (90), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (4),