[TaraP]

http://www.gdacs.org/reports.asp?eventType=EQ&ID=83870&system=asgard&location=DOM&alertlevel=Orange&glide_no=&TsID=1935

Orange Earthquake and Tsunami Alert in Dominican Republic

On 4/2/2010 5:38:55 AM UTC an earthquake of magnitude 8 and depth 13.9km has struck an unpopulated area in the La Altagracia Province (population: 0.1 million) in Dominican Republic. GDACS estimates the likelihood for need of international humanitarian intervention to be medium (Orange alert).

It is likely that a tsunami was generated. The maximum tsunami wave height near the coast of El Macao will be 2.77m. Please refer to the GDACS tsunami report for more details.

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact since the affected region is unpopulated and has high resilience for natural disasters.

The nearest populated places are [None]. It is a hilly region with a maximum altitude of 550 m.

[kingu]

Amazingly detailed eventing information for an earthquake that never happened. Only problem is that NGOs as well as some military follow their alerts, and it wouldn't surprise me if there's a heck of a lot of people running around the Pentagon right now, panicking over any personnel in the region.