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Costa Rica lies above the convergent plate boundary where the Cocos plate is subducting beneath the Caribbean plate at a rate of 9 cm per year. Off the Nicoya Peninsula, the Cocos plate is subducting along the Middle America Trench, and the Nicoya Peninsula is unique in being one of the few landmasses along the Pacific Rim located directly above the seismogenic zone of a subduction megathrust ...
The 2009 Cinchona earthquake occurred at 1:21:35 pm local time on January 8 with an M wc magnitude of 6.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX ( Violent).The shock took place in northern Costa Rica, 30 kilometres (19 mi) north-northwest of San José and was felt throughout Costa Rica and in southern central Nicaragua.
The 1991 Costa Rica earthquake, also known as the Limon earthquake or Bocas del Toro earthquake, occurred at 3:57 pm local time (21:56:51 UTC) on April 22.The epicenter of the 7.7 M w earthquake was in Pandora, Valle La Estrella, in the Caribbean region of Limon, Costa Rica, 225 kilometres (140 mi) southeast of San José.
1910 Costa Rica earthquakes: 1910-05-04: Cartago: 6.4 [10] 700 1822 Costa Rica earthquake: 1822-05-07: near Caribbean Coast 7.6 IX Unknown Note: The inclusion criteria for adding events are based on WikiProject Earthquakes' notability guideline that was developed for stand alone articles. The principles described also apply to lists.
The Red Sismológica Nacional (National Seismological Network) reported the strength of the tremor as magnitude 4.6, at a depth of 80 kilometres, while the Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica (Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica) described it as a magnitude 4.8 earthquake at a depth of 100 km. [98]
The 2017 Costa Rica earthquake occurred 16 kilometres southeast of Jacó, which is about 100 kilometres southwest of the capital, San Jose [2] on November 12, 2017. At first, the quake was measured at a magnitude of 6.8, it was a magnitude 6.5 earthquake with a max intensity of VIII (Severe) on the Mercalli intensity scale. [3]
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Nicoya Peninsula in the province of Guanacaste, Costa Rica, on September 5, at a depth of 35 km. [113] Two quakes measuring 5.6 struck China's Yunnan Province on September 7, at a depth of 9.9 km. At least 81 deaths and 821 injuries were reported, with more than 20,000 homes damaged. [114] [115]
Some houses were damaged in Panama, as well as in neighbouring Costa Rica. Power was cut in various cities near the epicenter and one person was injured by a falling roof. [204] [205] - 1 27 [206] New Zealand, Kermadec Islands offshore, 118 km north northwest of L'Esperance Rock: 6.3 10.0 VII It was an aftershock of the 7.3 quake on June 15 ...