M 4.6 in Costa Rica on 17 Jun 2017 15:00 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 1115152
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 11.47 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.3259 , -84.6588
Event Date: 17 Jun 2017 15:00 UTC
17 Jun 2017 09:00 Local
Exposed Population:
3110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jun 2017 15:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.7 (Costa Rica)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20009na1 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 802 | About casualties: 20 | Last hour: 0

4 presumed dead after Greenland tsunamiWed, 21 Jun 2017 14:46:00 +0200.

Greenland flags were flying at half-staff today across Denmark to mourn four people who are presumed dead after a tsunami flooded a village on the Arctic island's west coast. Police spokesman Lars Kirkegaard said yesterday they are three ad
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4 presumed dead after Greenland tsunamiWed, 21 Jun 2017 14:39:00 +0200.

COPENHAGEN — Greenland flags were flying at half-staff Wednesday across Denmark to mourn four people who are presumed dead after a tsunami flooded a village on the Arctic island's west coast. Police spokesman Lars Kirkegaard said Tuesday th
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Las impactantes imágenes del tsunami que destruyó viviendas y dejó var ... Wed, 21 Jun 2017 14:27:00 +0200.

Derechos de autor de la imagen PALLE LAURITSEN. Un raro terremoto de magnitud 4 registrado el sábado en la costa oeste de Groenlandia produjo olas gigantescas que arrasaron viviendas en varias localidades remotas de la isla. Según reportes
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Tsunami Groenlandia come Scilla 1783, individuata la montagna franata: ... Wed, 21 Jun 2017 13:55:00 +0200.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),