In San José, the Liceo de Costa Rica and the slaughterhouse were badly damaged.

Forty homes and a church were heavily damaged in Llano Grande, San Rafael and Tejar.

The intense shaking caused niches at the Cartago General Cemetery columbarium to open, revealing bones and cadavers.

In San José, Heredia and Alajuela, fallen objects and damage to plasters were reported.

The following day, the municipal government agreed to construct shelters in the eastern and western parts of the city to house the affected.

[5] After the 4 May earthquake, at 11:30 p.m., trains arrived at Cartago with volunteers to help transport the injured to San José.

The following day, many people from across the country arrived in Cartago to find their relatives or witness the disaster.

The destruction prompted President Víquez to propose new seismic codes to prevent a similar disaster.

Strong aftershocks continued to rock the area including a damaging magnitude 5.2 on 21 February 1912.

These faults are located at the southern slopes of the Irazú Volcano where its eruptive activity in the Pleistocene has buried the fault-related geomorphology.