M 5.3 in Costa Rica on 07 Jul 2026 18:11 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 1550639
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 47.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.8644 , -84.6042
Event Date: 07 Jul 2026 18:11 UTC
07 Jul 2026 12:11 Local
Exposed Population:
3.4 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 07 Jul 2026 18:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.7 (Costa Rica)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000tarc 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, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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5.3-magnitude quake hits Costa Rica -- GFZ 7/7/2026 7:31:00 PM.

BEIJING, July 8 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted Costa Rica at 1811 GMT on Tuesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 29.4 km, was initially determined to be at 9.75
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5.3-magnitude quake hits Costa Rica -- GFZ 7/7/2026 7:30:00 PM.

BEIJING, July 8 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted Costa Rica at 1811 GMT on Tuesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 29.4 km, was initially determined to be at 9.75
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),