M 5.4 in Costa Rica on 18 Nov 2025 22:36 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 1510913
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.7898 , -84.0158
Event Date: 18 Nov 2025 22:36 UTC
18 Nov 2025 16:36 Local
Exposed Population: 220 thousand in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 19 Nov 2025 01:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Costa Rica)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rp1a Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. 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

5.1-magnitude quake hits off coast of Costa Rica -- GFZ 11/22/2025 9:43:00 PM.

BEIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted off the coast of Costa Rica at 1841 GMT on Saturday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determin
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5.1-magnitude quake hits off coast of Costa Rica -- GFZ 11/22/2025 9:38:00 PM.

BEIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted off the coast of Costa Rica at 1841 GMT on Saturday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determin
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5.1-magnitude quake hits off coast of Costa Rica -- GFZ 11/22/2025 7:52:00 PM.

BEIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted off the coast of Costa Rica at 1841 GMT on Saturday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determin
...(more)
5.1-magnitude quake hits off coast of Costa Rica -- GFZ 11/22/2025 7:40:00 PM.

BEIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.

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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),