Overall Green Earthquake alert in Costa Rica on 23 Jun 2013 20:00 UTC

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M 5.2 in Costa Rica on 23 Jun 2013 20:00 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 1000270
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.2M
Depth:	18.4 Km
Lat/Lon:	10.1004 , -85.5338
Event Date:	23 Jun 2013 20:00 UTC 23 Jun 2013 14:00 Local
Exposed Population:	479969 people within 100km
Inserted at:	23 Jun 2013 22:23 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.2		0.2
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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Panamá/Costa Rica.- El terremoto entre Panamá y Costa Rica no ha causa.. 5/27/2013 2:01:00 PM.

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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