M 4.5 in Costa Rica on 21 Nov 2015 23:58 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 1073152
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 15.54 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.9708 , -83.7973
Event Date: 21 Nov 2015 23:58 UTC
21 Nov 2015 17:58 Local
Exposed Population:
569384 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Nov 2015 00:24 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: 345 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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Indonesia registra un terremoto de magnitud 5,7Wed, 25 Nov 2015 22:54:00 +0100.

El epicentro se encontraba 132 kilómetros al este de la ciudad de Bitung, en la provincia de Sulawesi del Norte, y a una profundidad que rondaba los 39 kilómetros. Un terremoto de magnitud 5,7 ha sacudido Indonesia, según informa el Servici
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Académico investigó los cambios de la lengua española a lo largo de la ... Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:51:00 +0100.

Palabras como "adefesio", procedente del latín "ad Ephesios"; "guiri", de origen vasco, o "pasmo", cuya etimología es la misma que la de "espasmo", son fruto de una curiosa evolución que ha sido estudiada por el latinista Juan Gil en el lib
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ANN,The Island win gold at Asian Digital Media AwardsWed, 25 Nov 2015 21:31:00 +0100.

ANN, The Island win gold at Asian Digital Media Awards November 25, 2015, 10:10 pm By Zacki Jabbar The Island and five other Asia News Network parners jointly won Gold at the 6th Asian Digital Media Awards held in Hong Kong last week. The p
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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),