Overall Green Earthquake in Dominican Republic on 14 Jun 2021 10:15 UTC

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M 5 in Dominican Republic on 14 Jun 2021 10:15 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 1273076
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	87 Km
Lat/Lon:	18.1195 , -68.496
Event Date:	14 Jun 2021 10:15 UTC 14 Jun 2021 06:15 Local
Exposed Population:	910000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	14 Jun 2021 11:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.7 (Dominican Republic)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
PRICO RS	0		0
pr2021165003	Scaled population (vector)	5.57
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.95

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Latest media headlines

AP - BC-CB--Dominican Republi, 0049 6/14/2021 3:56:00 PM.

5.0 quake strikes off Dominican Republic coast <
A 5.0 earthquake has struck off the southeast coast of the Dominican Republic <
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) _ A 5.0 earthquake struck off the southeast coast of the Dominican Repub

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Caribbean Sea: Magnitude-5.2 offshore earthquake occurs off the coast .. 6/14/2021 12:57:00 PM.

Event. A magnitude-5.2 offshore earthquake occurred in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of southeastern Dominican Republic at 06:15 June 14. The epicenter was approximately 51 km (31 miles) south-southeast of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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