M 4.7 in Dominican Republic on 24 Feb 2016 08:18 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 1081241
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 95.13 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.7292 , -69.4339
Event Date: 24 Feb 2016 08:18 UTC
24 Feb 2016 04:18 Local
Exposed Population:
5303836 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Feb 2016 08:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.9 -0.9
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),