M 4.6 in Costa Rica on 26 May 2024 04:37 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 1430390
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 4.3 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.4812 , -82.9749
Event Date: 26 May 2024 04:37 UTC
25 May 2024 22:37 Local
Exposed Population:
2 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 26 May 2024 07:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Panama)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Panama= 4; Costa Rica= 2.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000n11l Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Moderate mag. 4.1 earthquake - 67 km west of Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa.. 5/29/2024 9:16:00 PM.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Liberia , a town with 45,000 inhabitants in Costa Rica , in 97 km (60 mi) distance northeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there.
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),