A magnitude 5.4 earthquake occurred at 22:38:43 UTC on 12 July 2020, 6.4 km (4 mi) W of El Crucero, Nicaragua; 18.1 km (11.3 mi) S of Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua and 18.3 km (11.4 mi) NNE of San Rafael del Sur, Nicaragua. Estimates from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) located the epicentre of the event at 11.998°N, 86.368°W, and at a depth of 158.8 km (98.7 mi) – Figure 1. Nicaragua was the only CCRIF member country where peak ground acceleration, computed with the CCRIF SPHERA model, was greater than 0.01 g for this earthquake.