M 4.7 in Costa Rica on 16 Oct 2014 05:41 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 1041527
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 13.58 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.47 , -83.07
Event Date: 16 Oct 2014 05:41 UTC
15 Oct 2014 23:41 Local
Exposed Population:
611657 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Oct 2014 06:06 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 506 | About casualties: 31 | Last hour: 0

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Amit Shah reiterated that the election result is a stamp of approval of Narendra Modi government’s work and policies at the Centre
National › 2 U.S. Osprey aircraft take part in tsunami drill amid prot ... Mon, 20 Oct 2014 01:14:00 +0200.

Two U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft took part in a tsunami disaster drill in Japan on Sunday, despite protests from local people who question the safety of the tilt-rotor aircraft. It was the first time that the combat troop carrier
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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.
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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), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),