The Cocos Fire was the last of the May 2014 wildfires to be extinguished Removing , with full containment on May 22 .

The region is one of many earthquakes Catastrophe , where the Cocos Plate is being subducted along the Middle America Trench beneath the North American and the Caribbean Plates , near their triple junction .

This was an intraplate earthquake Catastrophe in the Cocos Plate , with a normal-faulting mechanism .