M 6.1 in Costa Rica on 17 Aug 2018 23:22 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 1154051
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 15.92 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.7935 , -83.1363
Event Date: 17 Aug 2018 23:22 UTC
17 Aug 2018 17:22 Local
Exposed Population: About 3000 people in MMI
880000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Aug 2018 00:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Costa Rica)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Panama= 4; Costa Rica= 2.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000gc0k Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.71  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 203 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

"La sacudida del terremoto en Galicia se notó bastante"Tue, 21 Aug 2018 17:53:00 +0200.

El temblor se produjo alrededor de las 2:20 horas y no ha provocado daños materiales ni personales . Pero sí unos cuantos sobresaltos. "No dormí hasta las cuatro de la mañana por si viniera la réplica", explica uno de los vecinos de la loca
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Un sismo de 4 grados sacude El Salvador sin causar víctimas ni dañosTue, 21 Aug 2018 16:10:00 +0200.

(Caracas,21 de agosto. Noticias24)- Un sismo de magnitud 4 en la escala de Richter sacudió hoy El Salvador sin que las autoridades hayan informado de víctimas o daños materiales, explicó el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales
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6.0 earthquake shakes southern Costa Rica near PanamaMon, 20 Aug 2018 10:29:00 +0200.

Friday Read more: The Miami Herald A strong earthquake shook southern Costa Rica near the border with Panama on Friday evening, toppling items from store shelves and knocking out power in places, but there were no immediate reports of injur
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Informe de incidencias: Incendio consume vivienda y causa daños en otr ... Mon, 20 Aug 2018 05:23:00 +0200.

A las 10:40 de la mañana de este domingo ocurrió un incendio en dos viviendas ubicads en el Barrio Georgino Andrade. Una de las viviendas se quemó totalmente y la otra sufrió daños en el techo. Los bomberos controlaron el incendio a las 11:
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),