M 4.5 in Dominican Republic on 21 Jun 2018 00:13 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 1146781
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 83.87 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.8871 , -69.8395
Event Date: 21 Jun 2018 00:13 UTC
20 Jun 2018 20:13 Local
Exposed Population:
6920000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jun 2018 00:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.7 (Dominican Republic)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000ewz1 Scaled population (vector) 6.96  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.95  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 17 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake jolts sections of Dominican RepublicThu, 21 Jun 2018 19:49:00 +0200.

SANTO DOMINGO An earthquake with a magnitude quake of 5.2 sections of the Dominican Republic late Wednesday. The Santo Domingo State University (UASD) Seismology Institute said the tremor occurred at 18.88 degrees latitude, 69.9 longitude,
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Earthquake jolts sections of DomRepThu, 21 Jun 2018 18:12:00 +0200.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (CMC) — An earthquake with a magnitude quake of 5.2 sections of the Dominican Republic late Wednesday. The Santo Domingo State University (UASD) Seismology Institute said the tremor occurred at 18.88 degree
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Se registra un sismo de magnitud 4,5 en la República DominicanaThu, 21 Jun 2018 02:54:00 +0200.

Un sismo de magnitud 4,5 se ha registrado la tarde de este miércoles en la República Dominicana, según el Servicio Geológico de EE.UU. (USGS, por sus siglas en inglés). El foco del terremoto se localizó a 55,6 kilómetros de profundidad , a
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Acusación de corrupción contra Félix Bautista y Víctor Díaz Rúa profun ... Mon, 18 Jun 2018 20:24:00 +0200.

Santo Domingo, 18 jun (EFE).- Las diferencias en el oficialismo dominicano se acentuaron hoy por la discrepancia emitida por algunos de sus altos dirigentes respecto a la expulsión o no de sus respectivos cargos del secretario de organizaci
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),