A magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 21:51:09 UTC on 24 August 2020, 4.5 km (2.8 mi) S of Jacó, Costa Rica; 50.1 km (31.2 mi) SSE of Puntarenas, Costa Rica and 172.5 km (107.2 mi) SSE of San Carlos, Nicaragua. Estimates from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) located the epicentre of the event at 9.575°N, 84.631°W, and at a depth of 19.4 km (12 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.