M 5.4 in Costa Rica on 24 Apr 2024 01:20 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 1425593
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.5366 , -82.3588
Event Date: 24 Apr 2024 01:20 UTC
23 Apr 2024 20:20 Local
Exposed Population: 130 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 25 Apr 2024 03:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Costa Rica)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mtc6 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, 2024. 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)

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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),