EARTHQUAKE.... HITS: Costa Rica MAGNITUDE 7.5-7.9

Nothing to do with this event .... that buoy has been active for hours

Michael McConnell · San José, Costa Rica
US Geological society has revised it to a 7.6, details here => [link to earthquake.usgs.gov]
Reply · · 8 minutes ago

UPDATE:- The earthquake was most felt in Samara in Guanacaste.

UPDATE:- Tsunami Alert : Costa Rica, Panamá, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, México, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala y Perú.

A major earthquake has hit mainland Costa Rica with an initial magnitude of M7.6.

The Costa Rica seismology agency is currently down. Electricity and telecommunications were down in San Jose.

The earthquake has been registered with M7.9 from local sources, but offshore.

This is a potentially very damaging earthquake and there is a tsunami warning, given the difference in locations.

A M6.9 earthquake struck near here in 1978, causing zero deaths.

At least 500,000 people live in the near epicentral area with damaging intensities.

Twitter reports from Costa Rica:- “100km from us – shook the whole house, lasted a full minute. Crazy”
[link to earthquake-report.com]

no aftershocks means it possibly could be a foreshock. Oh noes.

Interesting. It must of stopped and then went on again , it wasnt when I got up this morning. I look at this every morning with my coffee.

First aftershock

POTSDAM:

F-E Region: Costa Rica

Time: 2012-09-05 15:12:36.4 UTC

Magnitude: 5.0 (mb)

Epicenter: 84.93°W 9.20°N
Depth: 34 km
[link to geofon.gfz-potsdam.de]

Deep breath, only small damage control now. Doom averted again.

Depends how far in land. This still has tsunami potential if its coastal.

I have been noticing these enormous quakes have been hitting poorer countries. Anyone else notice this?

IF a tsunami was generated it have already hit most of Coast Rica west coast by now


here's the fixed Regional Tsunami Warning Supplement [link to dlvr.it]

also, I saw it, was too busy with my eyes on a volcano in the US. But I think it was more like a 6.5 to 6.8 at first glance. It did clip the station in nicaragua though...Might have completely fried the station in costa rica:

[link to www.iris.edu]

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a tsunami alert for coastlines from Mexico to Chile, after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck 8 kilometers off the coast of Costa Rica.

The quake hit close to Samara, a coastal area on the Pacific some 151 kms from the capital, San Jose. Some parts of the capital have lost power, but so far, no casualties have been reported.

The Tsunami Warning Center released a statement, saying "earthquakes of this size have the potential to generate a widespread destructive tsunami that can affect coastlines across the entire Caribbean region."

The last major earthquake in Costa Rica was a 6.1 magnitude quake in 2009, which killed 40 people, according to the USGS.

Chile's Navy also issued a tsunami alert.

Phones are out here, we talked to relatives in Chachagua via skype, San Ramon said it shook good and proper over there. I'm in Pital, San Carlos

Last Edited by ShortStrap on 09/05/2012 11:40 AM

Stay safe!

It's on land

^^^This^^^ is there a storm out that way?? if so it's huge and I looked this morning and they weren't activated

The East Coast waves most likely from Trop Storm Leslie

Take care, you will likely have some monster aftershocks as well.

Wow! Check out the Costa Rica earthquake on Wooster's seismic station (Ohio Seismic Network)
[link to 140.103.104.56]

My eq appregister 4 quakes
7.9 7.9 7.9 and 7.4 so far. In costa rica
ALL seperate quakes all 5-10 mins apart Ongoing now!

Is HAARP active right now??????

there is no average.

UPDATE:- It has been felt intensity VII and VIII outside of the epicentral region indicating major damage in the epicentral region. The values of VIII in San Jose registered are not expected and are probably outliers. It was felt in Nicaragua and other countries in Central America.

UPDATE:- The earthquake was most felt in Samara in Guanacaste. We have a local magnitude of 6.7 at a depth of 6km which will cause major damage in the epicentral area. 13 km al Suroeste de CANGREJAL de Nicoya de Guanacaste. [link to earthquake-report.com]

Last Edited by Luisport on 09/05/2012 11:44 AM

hey. this earthquake happened 3 hours ago and there
is still no realtime information coming from that region?

More landwards location for Costa Rica quake may be good news for tsunami, not as good for shaking; but PAGER so far is green

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

underwater movement of 769 miles per hour towards australia and japan.
eta 8 hrs.

Back at ya and thanks, so far no aftershocks, crossing fingers...