M 4.5 in Dominican Republic on 04 Jan 2023 16:44 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 1353106
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 104.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.585 , -69.082
Event Date: 04 Jan 2023 16:44 UTC
04 Jan 2023 12:44 Local
Exposed Population:
4.6 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 04 Jan 2023 16:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.7 (Dominican Republic)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
PTWC 0 0
pt23004000 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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 (3), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),