What the records say
- When
- 4 Aug 1946
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.9
- Where
- Dominican Republic
- Coordinates
- 19.25° N, 69.00° W
- Deaths
- 1790
- Depth km
- 15
5 sources record it
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake (magnitude 8.0) hits the northern Dominican Republic, killing 100 and leaving 20,000 homeless”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Erdbeben in der Dominikanischen Republik 1946 und dem darauf folgenden Tsunami sterben rund 1.790 Menschen”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “se registra un fuerte terremoto de 8,1 en República Dominicana que genera un tsunami que se observa en gran parte del mar Caribe y el noroeste del océano…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “多明尼加發生地震, 造成100人死亡。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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