M 4.5 in Dominican Republic on 03 Aug 2026 05:01 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 1555853
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.2743 , -69.627
Event Date: 03 Aug 2026 05:01 UTC
03 Aug 2026 01:01 Local
Exposed Population:
70 thousand in MMI>=IV
Inserted at: 03 Aug 2026 05:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.7 (Dominican Republic)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)
GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000thqe Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),