M 5.9 in Costa Rica on 22 Oct 2025 03:57 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 1506439
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 31 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.3653 , -84.1795
Event Date: 22 Oct 2025 03:57 UTC
21 Oct 2025 21:57 Local
Exposed Population: 50 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 22 Oct 2025 04:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.7 (Costa Rica)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ril5 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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),