M 4.7 in Costa Rica on 30 Jan 2017 16:20 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 1104422
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 10.8049 , -86.4049
Event Date: 30 Jan 2017 16:20 UTC
30 Jan 2017 10:20 Local
Exposed Population:
180000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Jan 2017 18:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.3 (Nicaragua)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Nicaragua= 5.3; Costa Rica= 2.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007w6q Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Un robot mide radiación extrema dentro de un reactor de FukushimaFri, 03 Feb 2017 15:48:00 +0100.

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Robot logra medir radiación extrema en reactor de FukushimaFri, 03 Feb 2017 15:33:00 +0100.

La operadora de la planta nuclear de Fukushima ha estimado un nivel extremadamente alto de radiactividad dentro de su reactor 2 a partir de un análisis reealizado por un robot Este hecho dificultará el proceso de desmantelamiento de sus ins
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Un robot consigue medir radiación extrema dentro de un reactor de Fuku ... Fri, 03 Feb 2017 15:30:00 +0100.

TOKIO | La operadora de la planta nuclear de Fukushima ha estimado un nivel extremadamente alto de radiactividad dentro de su reactor 2 a partir de un análisis efectuado por un robot, confirmó hoy a EFE una portavoz de la compañía. Este hec
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),