M 4.6 in Costa Rica on 17 Mar 2017 10:32 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 1108034
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 39.05 Km
Lat/Lon: 10.4449 , -86.0806
Event Date: 17 Mar 2017 10:32 UTC
17 Mar 2017 04:32 Local
Exposed Population:
280000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Mar 2017 11:24 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
us20008snc Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 436 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

El jabalí radiactivo reina en FukushimaTue, 21 Mar 2017 09:35:00 +0100.

Donde antes del 11 de marzo de 2011 circulaban los coches y los hombres caminaban o paseaban a sus mascotas, ahora corretean los jabalíes. Así es ahora Fukushima y su área de exclusión, un territorio de 19 kilómetros a la redonda donde quie
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Territory to test tsunami sirens this morningTue, 21 Mar 2017 08:18:00 +0100.

This is Tsunami Preparedness Week, and the V.I. Territorial Emergency Management Agency will test the territory’s tsunami warning system today at 10:15 a.m. “Tsunamis are not like tropical storms or hurricanes where the territory is warned
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Evidence of pre-Colombian tsunami serves as modern warningTue, 21 Mar 2017 08:18:00 +0100.

“The geologists blame either a rare tsunami or an unusual hurricane. They point to dormant tsunami sources in the Puerto Rico Trench, where tectonic plates meet 100 miles north of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. But they also note that
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Вот почему жители России делятся на тех, кто родился до 1986-го года и ... Tue, 21 Mar 2017 08:13:00 +0100.

Люди и крысы. Но тут случилось неожиданное! заявил старый Серебряков. Началось цунами, и ваш корабль попал в самый жуткий его штормовой фронт! Мачты ломаются, в трюме пробоина, на корме пожар! И что мы видим? Естественно! Крысы ринулись про
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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),