M 7.6 in Costa Rica on 05 Sep 2012 14:42 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 119341
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.6M
Depth: 40.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.9964 , -85.318
Event Date: 05 Sep 2012 14:42 UTC
05 Sep 2012 08:42 Local
Exposed Population: 1060000 people in MMI
770000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Feb 2017 13:11 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 1.3 0.9 1.3
usc000cfsd Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.93m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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Latest media headlines

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5.6 Magnitude Quake Hits Costa Rica 9/9/2012 9:41:00 AM.

San Jose, Sept. 9 (BNA) - An earthquake measuring 5.6 degrees hit last night northwestern Costa Rica. There was no immediate report of damage. The US Geological Survey said the quake was centered 64 km south-southeast of Liberia, Costa Rica
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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: JRC (1), EC-JRC (89), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),