M 4.7 in Costa Rica on 25 Apr 2015 20:37 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 1052977
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 12.03 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.2241 , -83.3816
Event Date: 25 Apr 2015 20:37 UTC
25 Apr 2015 14:37 Local
Exposed Population:
351401 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Apr 2015 20:51 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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 443 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

Nepal to dopiero początek. Nadchodzi fala trzęsień ziemiWed, 29 Apr 2015 20:13:00 +0200.

Trzęsienie można było jednak przewidzieć. Same Himalaje są w końcu rezultatem trwającego od milionów lat „przepychania się” dwóch kontynentalnych płyt, a zagrożenie wisi nad regionem od 700 lat. Kataklizmy powtarzają się regularnie: podobne
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Visitng Japanese lawmakers expected to discuss foo...Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:04:00 +0200.

Taipei, April 29 (CNA) A group of Japanese lawmakers arrived in Taiwan on Wednesday likely to discuss matters related to the safety of Japanese food exports to Taiwan. According to Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during the 4-day visi
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«Natürlich wiegen wir uns in trügerischer Sicherheit»Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:56:00 +0200.

Zwingt eine Katastrophe wie das Erdbeben in Nepal eine Gesellschaft zu fundamentalen Veränderungen? Ein bitterarmes Land wie Nepal ist dazu gar nicht in der Lage. Weil es nicht annähernd die Mittel hat, in Erdbebensicherheit zu investieren,
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«Natürlich wiegen wir uns in trügerischer Sicherheit»Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:51:00 +0200.

eine Gesellschaft zu fundamentalen Veränderungen? Ein bitterarmes Land wie Nepal ist dazu gar nicht in der Lage. Weil es nicht annähernd die Mittel hat, in Erdbebensicherheit zu investieren, wird es schlicht versuchen, auf den gleichen Stan
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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