M 4.6 in Costa Rica on 10 Dec 2015 00:03 UTC

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 1075344
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 18.59 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.9825 , -85.5914
Event Date: 10 Dec 2015 00:03 UTC
09 Dec 2015 18:03 Local
Exposed Population:
424862 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Dec 2015 03:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Shallow earthquake shakes Costa Rican capital San Jose 12/12/2015 9:14:00 AM.

(Adds details on depth, magnitude) SAN JOSE, Dec 11 (Reuters) - A minor, shallow earthquake shook buildings in the Costa Rican capital of San Jose on Friday, though there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake registered 3.7 magnitu
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Shallow earthquake shakes Costa Rican capital San Jose 12/12/2015 12:04:00 AM.

(Adds details on depth, magnitude) SAN JOSE, Dec 11 (Reuters) - A minor, shallow earthquake shook buildings in the Costa Rican capital of San Jose on Friday, though there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake registered 3.7 magnitu
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Shallow earthquake shakes Costa Rican capital San Jose 12/11/2015 11:24:00 PM.

SAN JOSE: A minor, shallow earthquake shook buildings in the Costa Rican capital of San Jose on Friday, though there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake registered 3.7 magnitude, was only 6 kilometres (4 miles) deep and struck ju
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Shallow earthquake shakes Costa Rican capital San Jose 12/11/2015 11:19:00 PM.

Saturday, 12 December 2015 | MYT 5:33 AM Shallow earthquake shakes Costa Rican capital San Jose. SAN JOSE (Reuters) - A minor, shallow earthquake shook buildings in the Costa Rican capital of San Jose on Friday, though there were no imme
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),