A staff member at the Samoa Observer news website said he had not felt a quake and was not aware of any reports of injury or damage.
The U.S. Tsunami Warning System did not issue a tsunami warning Samoa sits on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where earthquakes and volcanoes are common.
In 2009, two large earthquakes struck midway between Samoa and American Samoa, a U.S. territory. The earthquakes generated tsunami waves that killed at least 192 people in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga. (AP) AS AS