Costa Rica Incident Tracker
What actually happens in Costa Rica — risk profile → All of North America → Get alerts for Costa Rica
Every incident recorded in Costa Rica — natural disasters, accidents, fires, collapses, blasts and outbreaks — tracked live and given its own detailed report page.
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About Incidents & Disasters in Costa Rica
Costa Rica lies in North America, with its capital at San José. Historically the country is most affected by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and floods. This page monitors Costa Rica around the clock, plotting every detected incident on the map above and giving each one its own permanent record page.
Our monitoring for Costa Rica combines twenty-four independent streams: the USGS and EMSC seismic networks, the United Nations' GDACS alert system, NASA EONET and NASA FIRMS satellite observations, WHO outbreak bulletins, US NWS severe-weather alerts, the Smithsonian volcano programme, NOAA tsunami messages, GDELT global news monitoring, the Wikipedia current-events record, UN OCHA ReliefWeb, moderated public reports — and our own rotating sweep of local media in local languages. That last piece is what lets us capture smaller local incidents — building collapses, blasts, road and rail accidents, fires and drownings — that single-source trackers miss entirely.
So far in 2026, 251 incidents have been recorded in Costa Rica, including 8 rated severe or extreme. Counters update automatically as new events are detected.
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