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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Liberia in Costa Rica

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Liberia in Costa Rica. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/07/25 / 2025-07-26 17:39:44 / July 26, 2025 @ 5:39 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000qvfm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qvfm. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -85.3795° West, 10.6426° North. The temblor was picked up at 17:39:44 / 5:39 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puntarenas, Miramar, San Juan del Sur. Epicenter of the earthquake was 6 km (4 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Puntarenas (c. 35 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from San José (c. 31 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Cañas (c. 20 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Nicoya (c. 15 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Carlos (c. 13 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km E of Liberia, Costa Rica.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-85.3795° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.6426° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km E of Liberia, Costa Rica	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-26 17:39:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-27 05:11:25	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	298	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.228	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	127	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000qvfm	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qvfm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qvfm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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