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Magnitude	4.1
Region	COSTA RICA
Date time	2026-01-04 11:17:30.0 UTC
Location	9.652 ; -84.168
Depth	43 km
Distance	33 km S of San José, Costa Rica / pop: 335,000 / local time: 05:17:30.0 2026-01-04 12 km SE of Tejar, Costa Rica / pop: 22,400 / local time: 05:17:30.0 2026-01-04

Source parameters provided by:

Seccion de Sismologia, Univ. de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica -- San Jose, Costa Rica (UCR)

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All data providers for this event:

Instituto Nicaraguense de Estudios Territoriales -- Managua, Nicaragua (INET)
Seccion de Sismologia, Univ. de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica -- San Jose, Costa Rica (UCR)

Further information can be found at:

National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey -- Golden, United States (NEIC)
GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) -- Potsdam, Germany (GFZ)
Seccion de Sismologia, Univ. de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica -- San Jose, Costa Rica (UCR)
Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador -- Quito, Ecuador (QUI)
Instituto de investigacion observatorio valcanologico y sismologico, Heredia, Costa Rica -- Heredia, Costa Rica (UNA)