M 4.5 in Costa Rica on 18 Feb 2015 16:59 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 1048767
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 28.29 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.8853 , -82.9175
Event Date: 18 Feb 2015 16:59 UTC
18 Feb 2015 10:59 Local
Exposed Population:
791336 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Feb 2015 22:43 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: 219 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

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Force 6.1 Quake Jolts Northeast JapanFri, 20 Feb 2015 06:24:00 +0100.

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 hit off the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, the country’s meteorological agency said, Reuters reported. The agency said the temblor might lead to some change in tidal levels but n
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Magnitude 6.1 earthquake off northeast Japan, no damage expectedFri, 20 Feb 2015 06:10:00 +0100.

TOKYO (Reuters) - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 hit off the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The agency said that some change in tidal levels was possible but that no damage
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6.1 magnitude quake strikes off northeast Japan, no damage expectedFri, 20 Feb 2015 06:08:00 +0100.

TOKYO (REUTERS) - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 hit off the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The agency said that some change in tidal levels was possible but that no damage
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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), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),