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Province
Puntarenas
Costa Rica · North America
Puntarenas is a province of Costa Rica, in North America. It lies on the Panama Plate. Records include 2 major earthquakes since 1900 and 14 tsunamis observed on its coasts.
Tectonic Plates
Hazard Levels
Hazard level assessed by ThinkHazard! (World Bank, GFDRR), meaning the likelihood of a damaging event, from very low to high.
- Urban FloodHigh
- Coastal FloodHigh
- EarthquakeHigh
- LandslideHigh
- TsunamiHigh
- VolcanoHigh
- WildfireHigh
- Extreme HeatMedium
- River FloodLow
- CycloneLow
- Water ScarcityVery Low
Major Earthquakes Since 1900
- 1983Se, Panama · M 7.56 deaths
- 1941Puntarenas · M 7.66 deaths
Tsunamis Observed on Its Coasts
- 2017South Mexico, Mexico · 2.7 m98 deaths
- 2016Off Coast, Ecuador · 0.6 m663 deaths
- 2014Northern Chile, Chile · 4.6 m7 deaths
- 2013Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands · 11.0 m10 deaths
- 1985Mexico · 3.0 m9,500 deaths
- 1983Costa Rica · 0.1 m6 deaths
- 1979Colombia: Off Shore, Pacific Ocean, Colombia · 6.0 m600 deaths
- 1966Central Peru, Peru · 3.0 m110 deaths
- 1964Prince William Sound, Ak, United States of America · 51.8 m139 deaths
- 1957Andreanof Islands, Ak, United States of America · 32.0 m2 deaths
- 1952Se. Hokkaido Island, Japan · 6.5 m33 deaths
- 1952Kamchatka, Russia · 23.0 m10,000 deaths
Sources: Natural Earth · Smithsonian GVP · NOAA NCEI · IBTrACS · GEM · Bird (2003), PB2002