M 4.5 in Costa Rica on 09 Aug 2016 06:24 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 1091517
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 11.01 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.494 , -82.9803
Event Date: 09 Aug 2016 06:24 UTC
09 Aug 2016 00:24 Local
Exposed Population:
665906 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Aug 2016 06:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006c9f 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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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),