M 4.6 in Costa Rica on 01 Feb 2016 14:25 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 1079786
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 10.5643 , -83.0239
Event Date: 01 Feb 2016 14:25 UTC
01 Feb 2016 08:25 Local
Exposed Population:
372381 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Feb 2016 16:30 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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 272 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Japan deports dolphin activist after airport detentionFri, 05 Feb 2016 14:19:00 +0100.

The star of an Oscar-winning documentary that shows how dolphins are hunted and slaughtered in Japan was deported to the United States after Tokyo airport officials held him for more than two weeks. American Ric O'Barry said on Friday he wa
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Vólcan de Japón registra erucción de gran magnitudFri, 05 Feb 2016 14:14:00 +0100.

El monte Sakurajima, situado en el suroeste de Japón , registró hoy una erupción de gran magnitud, según informó la Agencia Meteorológica de Japón (JMA), que ha recomendado no acercarse a las proximidades del volcán. La explosión volcánica
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Nucleare: la Germania guarda al futuro delle fonti rinnovabiliFri, 05 Feb 2016 14:13:00 +0100.

L'annuncio è del 3 febbraio, tale notizia fa comprendere che la rivoluzione verso la fonte rinnovabile (rifiutata con il referendum del 1987, argomento poi riportato tra il 2005 e il 2008 ma abrogato definitivamente con il successivo del 20
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Un volcán japonés entra en erupción a 50 kilómetros de una planta nucl ... Fri, 05 Feb 2016 13:41:00 +0100.

El monte Sakurajima, situado en el suroeste de Japón, registró hoy una erupción de gran magnitud, según informó la Agencia Meteorológica de Japón (JMA), que ha recomendado no acercarse a las proximidades del volcán. La explosión volcánica h
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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),