M 5.8 in Samoa on 08 Nov 2019 09:41 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 1192836
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.7639 , -172.8501
Event Date: 08 Nov 2019 09:41 UTC
07 Nov 2019 21:41 Local
Exposed Population: About 100 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Nov 2019 17:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000692t Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 21 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

samoa Two earthquakes did not trigger tsunami – Met Office By Adel Fru ... Sat, 09 Nov 2019 09:21:00 +0100.

Two earthquakes that shook Samoa on Friday night and Saturday morning occurred in the space of six hours and did not generate a tsunami. This was confirmed by the Assistant C.E.O. of the Samoa Meteorological Service, Mulipola Ausetalia Titi
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samoa Samoa rattled by two earthquakes in space of six hours By Mata'a ... Fri, 08 Nov 2019 18:05:00 +0100.

Two earthquakes have shaken Samoa in the space of six hours. The first rattled the country just before midnight on Friday. It lasted for several seconds. According to the US Geophysical Institute, the quake was 6.2-magnitude. The epicentre
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World: Prepare to Win: Tsunami Awareness and PreparednessTue, 05 Nov 2019 15:51:00 +0100.

By Asako Okai. Asako Okai is UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of UNDP’s Crisis Bureau. UNITED NATIONS, Nov 5 2019 (IPS) - Once considered rare in their occurrence, in the last 10 years tsunamis have struck nearly every year: from
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Un terremoto de magnitud 6,6 sacude las aguas del Pacífico cerca de To ... Tue, 05 Nov 2019 05:47:00 +0100.

Un terremoto de 6,6 grados de magnitud sacudió hoy las aguas del Pacífico Sur cerca de Tonga, un país insular habitado por unas 100.000 personas, sin que se haya informado de víctimas o se haya declarado alerta de tsunami. El seísmo se regi
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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 (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),