M 4.5 in Costa Rica on 16 Nov 2025 11:51 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 1510543
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 65.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.991 , -83.2134
Event Date: 16 Nov 2025 11:51 UTC
16 Nov 2025 05:51 Local
Exposed Population:
60 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 16 Nov 2025 12:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.7 (Costa Rica)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rnks Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),