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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Daniel Flores in Costa Rica

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Daniel Flores in Costa Rica on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -83.8228 West, latitude 9.0779 North, depth = 43.057 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:43:02 / 3:43 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/10/25 / 2025-10-23 03:43:02 / October 23, 2025 @ 3:43 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 43.057 km (27 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000rit2. Event ids that are associated: us6000rit2.

Country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Paraíso (c. 39 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from San Isidro (c. 34 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Turrialba (c. 29 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from San Miguel (c. 28 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Cartago (c. 26 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Aserrí (c. 25 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Turrialba, San Rafael Arriba, Patarrá.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 33 km SSW of Daniel Flores, Costa Rica.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-83.8228° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.0779° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	43.057 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33 km SSW of Daniel Flores, 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	2025-10-23 03:43:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-23 03:58:17	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	286	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.683	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	130	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	us6000rit2	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rit2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rit2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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