M 5.5 in Samoa on 24 Jan 2019 00:52 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 1168718
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.1354 , -173.4036
Event Date: 24 Jan 2019 00:52 UTC
23 Jan 2019 12:52 Local
Exposed Population: About 500 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Jan 2019 01:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000j82f Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 6 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Gov says FEMA regulations not clear — that’s why new Fono Building on ... Sat, 26 Jan 2019 18:05:00 +0100.

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Among the issues covered in the Governor’s State of the Territory Address earlier this month was a brief status of the new two-story Fono building project, which has been on hold since late last year following co
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RELIEF AGENCIES BUSY IN SAMOAThu, 24 Jan 2019 03:32:00 +0100.

Tents, clothing, salvage services around clock. APIA, Samoa (Samoalive News, Sept. 30, 2009) – A day after the earthquake and tsunami, attention is now turning to working out ways to getting supplies to those families in the south coast of
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FSM Not Prepared For A Tsunami, President SaysFri, 18 Jan 2019 12:06:00 +0100.

Mori admits vulnerability at disaster risk reduction meeting. SAIPAN, CNMI (Marianas Variety, March 19, 2015) – President Emmanuel Mori of the Federated States of Micronesia has told the world gathering on disaster risk reduction in Japan t
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Nouvel An: du Pacifique aux Amériques, le monde plonge dans 2019Tue, 01 Jan 2019 05:00:00 +0100.

La Chine a basculé dans 2019, trois heures après l'Australie. Premier grand pays à avoir ouvert le bal, cette dernière a célébré l'entrée dans la nouvelle année avec un gigantesque feu d'artifice dans la baie de Sydney. Alors que l'Europe d
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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),