M 4.5 in Dominican Republic on 16 Mar 2017 00:54 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 1107903
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 1 Km
Lat/Lon: 20.202 , -70.366
Event Date: 16 Mar 2017 00:54 UTC
15 Mar 2017 20:54 Local
Exposed Population:
1910000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Mar 2017 01:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.7 (Dominican Republic)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NTWC     0 0
at00omvujj Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 357 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

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J.I.C.A. projects highlightedSun, 19 Mar 2017 22:05:00 +0100.

Japan, through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (J.I.C.A.) has contributed more than 140 million tala into three major projects in Samoa. Last Friday, J.I.C.A. proudly organised a media tour to showcase the three projects that are
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6.0-magnitude quake hits off Solomon IslandsSun, 19 Mar 2017 21:36:00 +0100.

HONG KONG: A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit off the Solomon Islands in the early hours of Monday, the US Geological Survey said. The quake struck at 02:43 am local time (1543 GMT Sunday) at a depth of 4.0 kilometres (2.5 miles), some 170 kilo
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),