List of earthquakes in Samoa

The primary tectonic feature near Samoa is the northernmost extent of the Tonga Trench where the Pacific plate is being subducted beneath the Australian plate. The trench strikes south-southeast between New Zealand and Samoa, then turns sharply to the west. Its close proximity makes the Samoan Islands prone to tsunami that are generated during subduction events.{{citation|title=Active Faults of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aQUgAwAAQBAJ|last=Yeats|first=R.|date=2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0521190855|pages=479, 280}}

Earthquakes

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! Region

! Coords

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! MMI

! Deaths

! Injuries

! Comments

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2009-09-29

| {{Coord

15.52

172.03}}

| 8.1 M_w

| 189

| Hundreds

| Moderate tsunami

1977-04-02

| {{Coord

16.7

172.1}}

| 7.6 M_s

| VI

| Limited damage / tsunami

| {{citation|title=Significant Earthquake Database|url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/form?t=101650&s=1&d=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929000601/http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/form?t=101650&s=1&d=1|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 29, 2006|author=NGDC|publisher=National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA|doi=10.7289/V5TD9V7K|year = 1972|type = Data Set}}

1917-06-25

| {{Coord

15.08

173}}

| 8.5 M_w

| Large tsunami

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| colspan="9" style="text-align: center;" |Note: The inclusion criteria for adding events are based on WikiProject Earthquakes' notability guideline that was developed for stand alone articles. The principles described also apply to lists. In summary, only damaging, injurious, or deadly events should be recorded.

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List of earthquakes in Samoa

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