M 5.7 in Costa Rica on 15 Apr 2026 06:56 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 1535489
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 20 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.9151 , -86.3803
Event Date: 15 Apr 2026 06:56 UTC
15 Apr 2026 00:56 Local
Exposed Population: 210 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 15 Apr 2026 07:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Costa Rica)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000sq5z Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. 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

Urgent: 5.7-magnitude earthquake jolts Costa Rica -- USGS 4/15/2026 10:25:00 AM.

BEIJING, April 15 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 jolted 72 km southwest of Tamarindo, Costa Rica, at 0656 GMT on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 20.0 km, was initially determined
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Urgent: 5.7-magnitude earthquake jolts Costa Rica -- USGS 4/15/2026 10:25:00 AM.

BEIJING, April 15 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 jolted 72 km southwest of Tamarindo, Costa Rica, at 0656 GMT on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 20.0 km, was initially determined
...(more)
5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Costa Rica 4/15/2026 8:06:00 AM.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 struck 72 km southwest of Tamarindo at 0656 GMT on Wednesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey ( United States Geological Survey reports, citing The epicenter of the earthquake , which had a dept
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Urgent: 5.7-magnitude earthquake jolts Costa Rica -- USGS 4/15/2026 7:56:00 AM.

BEIJING, April 15 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 jolted 72 km southwest of Tamarindo, Costa Rica, at 0656 GMT on Wednesday,....

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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),