Overall Green Earthquake alert in Costa Rica on 14 Oct 2014 03:31 UTC

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M 4.5 in Costa Rica on 14 Oct 2014 03:31 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 1041386
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	13.52 Km
Lat/Lon:	9.23 , -84
Event Date:	14 Oct 2014 03:31 UTC 13 Oct 2014 21:31 Local
Exposed Population:	2772673 people within 100km
Inserted at:	14 Oct 2014 03:48 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

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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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