M 6.5 in Costa Rica on 13 Nov 2017 02:28 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 1126202
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.5M
Depth: 19.79 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.5264 , -84.5054
Event Date: 13 Nov 2017 02:28 UTC
12 Nov 2017 20:28 Local
Exposed Population: About 4000 people in MMI
3450000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Nov 2017 02:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.7 (Costa Rica)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us2000bmhe Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 0.22m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0.05m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 810 | About casualties: 65 | Last hour: 0

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Greece in mourning, several still missing after deadly floodFri, 17 Nov 2017 02:06:00 +0100.

MANDRA: Greece was in mourning on Thursday (Nov 16) as rescue crews tried to locate several people missing in a flood that killed 16 people near the capital, with more thunderstorms forecast until the weekend. Authorities said at least four
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Greece in mourning, several still missing after deadly floodFri, 17 Nov 2017 02:03:00 +0100.

Authorities said at least four people were still unaccounted for in Mandra, one of three towns about 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Athens hit by a freak flood early Wednesday. The latest victim, a 50-year-old man, was found in a mud-fill
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),