M 4.5 in Off Coast Of Costa Rica on 15 Sep 2020 22:08 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 1235541
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 10.8763 , -86.6483
Event Date: 15 Sep 2020 22:08 UTC
15 Sep 2020 16:08 Local
Exposed Population:
About 48000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Sep 2020 22:33 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
us7000bnrj Scaled population (vector) 3.68  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -1  
  INFORM_normalised 1.02  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 288 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

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Caltech’s Seismic Innovation Uses Undersea Earthquakes to Shake Up Cli ... Sat, 19 Sep 2020 19:18:00 +0200.

Despite climate change being most obvious to people as unseasonably warm winter days or melting glaciers, as much as 95 percent of the extra heat trapped on Earth by greenhouse gases is held in the world’s oceans. For that reason, monitorin
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Reply (11)Sat, 19 Sep 2020 18:55:00 +0200.

LOS ANGELES, CA — Residents across Southern California were scanning their homes Saturday morning for any damage caused by a magnitude 4.5 earthquake that struck two miles south of Rosemead and was felt across a large portion of the region,
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4.5 earthquake rattles Southern CaliforniaSat, 19 Sep 2020 17:22:00 +0200.

An earthquake shook Southern California late Friday. The quake struck just after 11:30 p.m. and was initially rated as a magnitude-4.6 temblor, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was centered about 1.8 miles west southwest of El Mo
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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),