Overall Green Earthquake in Costa Rica on 19 Dec 2013 03:05 UTC

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M 4.5 in Costa Rica on 19 Dec 2013 03:05 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 1020641
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	28.15 Km
Lat/Lon:	8.17 , -83.0769
Event Date:	19 Dec 2013 03:05 UTC 18 Dec 2013 21:05 Local
Exposed Population:	545974 people within 100km
Inserted at:	19 Dec 2013 03:23 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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