M 4.8 in Costa Rica on 25 May 2024 20:11 UTC

Hazard models

Rapid Impact
Shakemap
Tsunami

Event summary

This earthquake is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.4925 , -82.9318
Event Date: 25 May 2024 20:11 UTC
25 May 2024 14:11 Local
Exposed Population:
4 thousand in MMI VI
Source: NEIC us6000n0zu
Inserted at: 25 May 2024 20:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 4 (Panama)
INFORM Coping capacity of the affected contries: Panama= 4; Costa Rica= 2.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000n0zu Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

The green area correspond to areas affected by strong shaking (MMI VI or higher) according to the simulation.


Episode Timeline

IDAlertScoreDateMag, DepthMMI*Population**Tsunami risk***Delay (hh:mm)Source
1573091 0 25 May 2024 20:11 4.8M, 10.7km 5.73 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 00:19 NEIC
The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.
The episode that has the last updated information.
* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Rapid Impact

The results presented below are calculated with the ShakeMap open source software (USGS) using only earthquake hypocenter information to provide a rapid estimation of the ground motion and shaking intensity without taking into account any instrumental observations or earthquake source scaling laws.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Costa Rica ,of Puntarenas (population 384,746) . The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity Population
4500 people
44000 people

Affected Provinces

Intensity Region Province Country Population
Puntarenas Costa Rica <1000 people
Puntarenas Costa Rica 37000 people
Chiriqui Panama 15000 people
Puntarenas Costa Rica 9900 people
Chiriqui Panama 24000 people

Affected populated places. Areas of interest

Intensity Name Region Province Country City class Population Distance
La Cuesta Puntarenas Costa Rica Village - 9 km
Capacho Chiriquí Panama Village - 12 km
Progreso Chiriquí Panama Village 2100 people 12 km
Unión Puntarenas Costa Rica Village - 16 km
Divala Chiriquí Panama Village - 16 km
La Esperanza Chiriquí Panama Village - 18 km

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Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

Airports

Intensity Name IATA Code Elevation (m) Usage Runway type IFR Runway Length (ft) Distance
Coto 47 OTR 8 Civ. Paved No 3200 13 km

More information

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