M 5.8 in Samoa on 12 Apr 2019 12:23 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 1176280
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.4001 , -172.7157
Event Date: 12 Apr 2019 12:23 UTC
12 Apr 2019 00:23 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Apr 2019 12:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us700034ya Scaled population (vector) 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: 5 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

samoa Earthquakes not strong enough to issue tsunami warning By Soli W ... Sat, 13 Apr 2019 08:19:00 +0200.

Samoa has experienced five earthquakes in a row over the past seven days with the latest occurring early yesterday morning. No tsunami warning was issued for the earthquakes, according to a bulletin issued by Samoa Meteorological Office. Th
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samoa No tsunami from 5.3 magnitude earthquake – Met. Office By Adel F ... Tue, 09 Apr 2019 07:18:00 +0200.

The Samoa Meteorology Division says the 5.3 magnitude earthquake that occurred Tuesday wouldn't have generated a tsunami as it was not "energetic enough to break the the plates". According to the Principal Scientific Officer of the Geoscien
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Forum bois et construction : les défis climatiquesThu, 04 Apr 2019 06:38:00 +0200.

Il faut d’abord regarder par-dessus son épaule. Pour avoir une idée du temps ancien. Puis porter son regard vers le pays du Soleil levant. Là où les secousses sismiques fleurissent autant que les cerisiers. Le professeur Kazumasa Watanabé a
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MILWAUKEE CONTRACTOR WANTS MORE SIRENS IN SAMOAMon, 01 Apr 2019 18:09:00 +0200.

Tsunami warning system needs design review. By Fili Sagapolutele APIA, Samoa (Samoalive News, Aug. 25, 2010) – An assessment by the off-island company who was awarded the contract for the installation of the first ever local siren system ha
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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),