Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Samamea in Samoa

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Samamea in Samoa on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000myys. Unique identifier: us6000myys. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 01:38:24 / 1:38 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 09/05/24 / 2024-05-09 01:38:24 / May 9, 2024 @ 1:38 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -171.4711° West, -13.9821° South.

Close country/countries, American Samoa (c. 58 000 pop), Samoa (c. 192 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Apia (c. 40 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Pago Pago (c. 11 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Tāfuna (c. 11 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mulifanua (c. 4 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Leulumoega (c. 1 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Lufilufi (c. 1 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Vailoa (c. 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vailoa, Tāfuna, Pago Pago (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 8 km SE of Samamea, Samoa.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-171.4711° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-13.9821° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km SE of Samamea, Samoa	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-09 01:38:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-25 00:56:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	341	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.311	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000myys	Id of event.
Event Code	6000myys	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000myys,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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