M 4.5 in Dominican Republic on 27 Feb 2017 01:04 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1106549
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 60.29 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.9664 , -70.0129
Event Date: 27 Feb 2017 01:04 UTC
26 Feb 2017 21:04 Local
Exposed Population:
7670000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Feb 2017 01:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.7 (Dominican Republic)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008mkq Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 380 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Stakeholder disaster preparedness criticalFri, 03 Mar 2017 00:16:00 +0100.

The inclusion of stakeholders and government departments in disaster preparedness is imperative in ensuring the safety of the public during natural disasters. This was the sentiment of National Disaster Management Office director, Akapusi T
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«الحشد الشعبي» لانتخابات كسروان: في جونية روكز أولاً!Fri, 03 Mar 2017 00:14:00 +0100.

قبل أيام من الانتخابات البلدية في أيار الماضي، ربط النائب السابق فريد هيكل الخازن في لقاء مع الأخبار نتائج البلدية في مدينة جونية بالانتخابات النيابية المقبلة. وصف، في حينه، المعركة بأنها صراع أحجام ونفوذ... خاصة أن الانتخابات النيابية بعد
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Gündoğdu'dan korkutan deprem uyarısıThu, 02 Mar 2017 23:47:00 +0100.

Yrd. Doç. Dr. Oğuz Gündoğdu, Marmara ve Ege'deki depremlerin büyük tsunami yaratabileceğini söyledi. Marmara için deprem tehdidinin sürdüğünü belirten Gündoğdu, asıl tehlikenin ise uzun süredir sessiz duran Biga fayının kırılması halinde ya
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National › Fukushima cleanup chief urges better use of probe robotThu, 02 Mar 2017 23:26:00 +0100.

TOKYO. The head of decommissioning for the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant said Thursday that more creativity is needed in developing robots to locate and assess the condition of melted fuel rods. A robot sent inside the No. 2 reactor conta
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),