Strong earthquake, 6 mag has occurred near Gataivai in Samoa

A earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 136 km SSW of Gataivai, Samoa (85 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19295000. Id of event: pt19295000. The 6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:18:41 / 4:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -172.781° West, -14.945° South, depth 89.1 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/10/19 / 2019-10-22 04:18:41 / October 22, 2019 @ 4:18 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 89.1 km (55 miles).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 136 km SSW of Gataivai, Samoa.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-172.781° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-14.945° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	89.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	136km SSW of Gataivai, Samoa	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-10-22 04:18:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-22 04:27:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-720	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	REVIEWED	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	554	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	pt	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	125.99998992	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	pt19295000	Id of event.
Event Code	19295000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt19295000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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