M 6 in Costa Rica on 24 Aug 2020 21:51 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 1231642
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 27.24 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.5976 , -84.6014
Event Date: 24 Aug 2020 21:51 UTC
24 Aug 2020 15:51 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VI
3440000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Aug 2020 21:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.7 (Costa Rica)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bcbv Scaled population (raster) 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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 88 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

After Latest Earthquake, Is Another One on the Horizon in Costa Rica?Wed, 26 Aug 2020 21:20:00 +0200.

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Terremoto saca del agua a un extraño pez giganteWed, 26 Aug 2020 18:52:00 +0200.

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Small quake clusters can't hide from AITue, 25 Aug 2020 19:04:00 +0200.

Researchers at Rice University's Brown School of Engineering are using data gathered before a deadly 2017 landslide in Greenland to show how deep learning may someday help predict seismic events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Sei
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),