Earthquake in the Dominican Republic, 1946
The 1946 earthquake in the Dominican Republic was an 8.0 magnitude earthquake that struck the province of Samaná in the Dominican Republic on August 4, 1946 at 17:51 UTC. There was an aftershock four days later on August 8 at 13:28 UTC with a magnitude of 7.6.
Around 100 people died as a result of the earthquake and 20,000 were left homeless. The death toll was unusually low for a quake of this magnitude, as the quake occurred in the afternoon local time on a public holiday and almost all of the people were outside of buildings. The quake caused serious damage in the north of the country from Samaná to Santiago and Puerto Plata. Sand slippage has been observed in Yaque del Norte and the Yuna River Valleys. The earthquake was felt strongly in parts of Haiti and Puerto Rico and less strongly in the Virgin Islands and eastern Cuba .
The quake also caused a tsunami that hit land on the north coast in the province of María Trinidad Sánchez near Matanzas near Nagua with a tidal wave of 2.5 to 4.5 meters and came a few kilometers inland. A minor tsunami was also recorded in San Juan , Puerto Rico, and Bermuda, as well as Daytona Beach , Florida and Atlantic City , New Jersey in the United States.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Historic Earthquakes: Samana, Dominican Republic 1946 ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , USGS , accessed January 13, 2010
- ↑ United States Tsunamis, (including United States possessions) 1690-1988: Publication 41-2, Lander, James F. and Lockridge, Patricia A., August 1989, US Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , 265 pp.
