M 4.55 in Dominican Republic on 29 Apr 2025 16:11 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 1479476
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 96 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.2983 , -68.28
Event Date: 29 Apr 2025 16:11 UTC
29 Apr 2025 12:11 Local
Exposed Population:
600 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 29 Apr 2025 17:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.7 (Dominican Republic)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
PRICO RS 0 0
pr2025119001 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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 (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),