What the records say
- When
- 29 Sep 2009
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 8.1
- Where
- Samoa
- Coordinates
- 15.49° S, 172.09° W
- Deaths
- 192
- Injuries
- 7
- Damage musd
- 285
- Depth km
- 18
2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami
Natural disaster in the southern Pacific Ocean
The 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami took place on 29 September 2009 in the southern Pacific Ocean adjacent to the Tonga–Kermadec subduction zone. The submarine earthquake occurred in an extensional environment and had a moment magnitude of 8.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). It was the largest earthquake of 2009. The earthquake initiated with a normal-faulting event with a magnitude of 8.1.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A 8.1 earthquake strikes Samoa, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), leaving at least 192 people dead”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Samoa se registra un terremoto de 8,1 y un tsunami que dejan un saldo de 189 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “南太平洋・サモア近海でマグニチュード8.1の巨大地震が発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page