1946 Dominican Republic earthquake
- 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake
Earthquake
title=1946 Dominican Republic earthquake
date= August 4, 1946
magnitude = 8.0 Mw[ [http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/events/1946_08_04.php Historic Earthquakes: Samana, Dominican Republic 1946] , "USGS", Retrieved June 10 2008] ]
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countries affected = flag|Dominican Republic
casualties = Around 100 people were killed.The 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake refers to the earthquake of magnitude 8.0 that hit Samana, Dominican Republic on August 4, 1946 at 17:51 UTC. An aftershock occurred four days later on August 8 at 13.28 UTC with a magnitude of 7.6.
The earthquake killed around 100, but left some 20,000 people homeless.[ The death toll was unusually low as it coincided with a holiday in the afternoon, when most people were outdoors. It caused severe damage in the northern Dominican Republic from Samana to Santiago and Puerto Plata. Slumping and sand blows were observed in the Yaque del Norte and Yuna River Valleys. ]The earthquake was felt strongly in parts of Haiti and Puerto Rico, and to a lesser extent in the Virgin Islands and eastern Cuba. The earthquake also caused a tsunami which struck at Matanzas, near Nagua (Julia Molina) where a 2.5 m (8 ft) - 4-5m (13-16ft) high wave drowned a number of people and affected an area of land several kilometres inland. A small tsunami was also recorded by tide gauges at San Juan, Puerto Rico, Bermuda and in the United States at Daytona Beach, Florida and Atlantic City, New Jersey [United States Tsunamis, (including United States possessions) 1690-1988: Publication 41-2, Lander, James F., and Lockridge, Patricia A., August 1989, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 265 p. ] .
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