Overall Green Earthquake alert in Costa Rica on 19 Jun 2018 14:41 UTC

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M 4.5 in Costa Rica on 19 Jun 2018 14:41 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 1146623
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	170.79 Km
Lat/Lon:	10.7894 , -84.932
Event Date:	19 Jun 2018 14:41 UTC 19 Jun 2018 08:41 Local
Exposed Population:	1090000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	19 Jun 2018 16:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	5.3 (Nicaragua)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Nicaragua= 5.3; Costa Rica= 2.7

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us1000eviu	Scaled population (vector)	5.98
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	-1
	INFORM_normalised	1.02

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Las ‘mascletás’ pueden dañar los monumentos cercanosFri, 22 Jun 2018 14:21:00 +0200.

Contraviniendo las recomendaciones de los investigadores de la Universidad de Alicante (España), las mascletás, disparos pirotécnicos hechos con petardos de gran potencia sonora y que conforman una composición muy ruidosa y rítmica que se v

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En el Perú: Nace Luisa de la Torre, la "Beatita de Humay". Luisa curaba toda clase de enfermedades tratándolas con hierbas medicinales y oraciones. Su fama de santidad se extendió por todo el país. Se dice que resucitó a una persona e hizo

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Estudio alerta sobre posible terremoto entre Osorno y ValdiviaWed, 20 Jun 2018 06:30:00 +0200.

El terremoto de 2016 en la Isla de Chiloé dio pie para una importante investigación realizada por un grupo de científicos chilenos, que estableció la inminente posibilidad de que se genere un nuevo sismo en la zona sur de Chile. El estudio,

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