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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Puerto Cortés in Costa Rica

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Puerto Cortés in Costa Rica on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, -84.0062° West, 8.8624° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/12/25 / 2025-12-07 14:20:44 / December 7, 2025 @ 2:20 pm. Event id: us6000rt5m. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rt5m. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:20:44 / 2:20 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from San Isidro (c. 34 900 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Buenos Aires (c. 11 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Daniel Flores (c. 10 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Quepos (c. 7 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Mercedes (c. 5 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Buenos Aires, San Isidro, Quepos.

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 nine and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 54 km WSW of Puerto Cortés, Costa Rica.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-84.0062° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.8624° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54 km WSW of Puerto Cortés, 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	2025-12-07 14:20:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-07 14:57:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.873	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	145	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	us6000rt5m	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rt5m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rt5m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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