M 4.8 in Samoa on 18 Jan 2017 05:59 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 1103455
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -15.7946 , -173.5941
Event Date: 18 Jan 2017 05:59 UTC
18 Jan 2017 18:59 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jan 2017 06:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10007tvh Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 332 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

Nine Rescued, At Least Five Dead in Italy AvalancheSun, 22 Jan 2017 05:13:00 +0100.

A total of nine people have been pulled alive from the rubble of a hotel demolished on Wednesday by an avalanche in central Italy, although officials said five have died and an estimated 23 more are still missing. Fireman dug the survivors,
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Rescuers race to find 23 missing in Italian hotel hit by avalancheSun, 22 Jan 2017 04:57:00 +0100.

PENNE, Italy: A total of nine people have been pulled alive from the rubble of a hotel demolished on Wednesday by an avalanche in central Italy, although officials said five have died and an estimated 23 more are still missing. Fireman dug
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Terremoto, la Commissione Grandi rischi 'Possibili altre scosse fino a ... Sun, 22 Jan 2017 03:36:00 +0100.

ROMA. "Non ci sono evidenze che la sequenza sismica sia in esaurimento". Le faglie attive dal 24 agosto 2016 - data della disastrosa scossa di Amatrice - "hanno il potenziale di produrre terremoti di elevata magnitudo (6-7)". La Commissione
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Terremoto, la Commissione Grandi rischi: "Possibili altre scosse fino ... Sun, 22 Jan 2017 02:45:00 +0100.

ROMA. "Non ci sono evidenze che la sequenza sismica sia in esaurimento". Le faglie attive dal 24 agosto 2016 - data della disastrosa scossa di Amatrice - "hanno il potenziale di produrre terremoti di elevata magnitudo (6-7)". La Commissione
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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),