Overall Green Earthquake alert in Costa Rica on 06 Jul 2014 11:42 UTC

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M 4.9 in Costa Rica on 06 Jul 2014 11:42 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 1035568
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	65.64 Km
Lat/Lon:	10.2742 , -85.178
Event Date:	06 Jul 2014 11:42 UTC 06 Jul 2014 05:42 Local
Exposed Population:	939120 people within 100km
Inserted at:	06 Jul 2014 12:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
	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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Latest media headlines

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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),

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