Earthquake — Costa Rica: Nicoya

When

5 Sep 2012

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.6

Where

Costa Rica

Coordinates

10.09° N, 85.31° W

Deaths

2

Injuries

20

Damage musd

45

Depth km

35

Earthquake in Costa Rica

The 2012 Costa Rica earthquake occurred at 08:42 local time on September 5. The epicenter of the 7.6 Mw earthquake was in the Nicoya Peninsula, 11 kilometers east-southeast of Nicoya. A tsunami warning was issued shortly afterwards, but later cancelled. Two people are known to have died, one from a heart attack and another, a construction worker, crushed by a collapsing wall.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A 7.6-magnitude earthquake 87 miles west of the Costa Rican capital of San José triggers a tsunami alert for the coastlines of Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En la península de Nicoya, en la costa occidental de Costa Rica, se registra un terremoto de 7,6 que deja 2 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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