M5.6 Earthquake Recorded Near Off coast of Costa Rica [Sea: Costa Rica]

INGV Italy reports M5.6 near Off coast of Costa Rica [Sea: Costa Rica], with a 48.4 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-09-30T22:32:03.379Z

The event began at Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:55:34 GMT. INGV Italy reports magnitude 5.6, 48.4 km catalog depth, and coordinates 9.998, -86.358.

The catalog location label is Off coast of Costa Rica [Sea: Costa Rica]; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is an intermediate-depth event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 1.58e+13 joules, or about 3,788 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.

The current catalog entry does not include a public felt-report count. No separate intensity or catalog-significance detail is available from this provider record. No official casualty or damage statement is attached to the normalized event evidence.

INGV Italy has not supplied a review status in the normalized record. No station-count, phase-count, residual, gap, or uncertainty fields were supplied in the normalized record. No alternate network solution is attached to this record.

The provider record does not carry a tsunami flag at publication time. Magnitude, depth, and location can change as monitoring networks add observations and review the solution.