A earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Tamarindo in Costa Rica. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nyau. Unique identifier: us6000nyau. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/10/24 / 2024-10-12 17:43:45 / October 12, 2024 @ 5:43 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 17:43:45 / 5:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -86.1249° West, latitude 10.5443° North, depth = 18.574 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.574 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 117 km (73 miles) from San José (c. 31 400 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Rivas (c. 30 300 pop), 113 km (70 miles) from Cañas (c. 20 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Nicoya (c. 15 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 12 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from San Jorge (c. 7 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San José, Cañas, Belén (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 41 km NW of Tamarindo, Costa Rica.
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