At 4:55am on February 13th, 44kms south of Quepos, a large Costa Rica earthquake was felt throughout the country.
Determined to be anywhere between 5.7 (USGS) and 6.0 (OVSICORI), either way you look at it, it was a “goliath”.
There were similarities to the 6.1 Costa Rica earthquake of January 8, 2009 where some 2450 were affected as a result of the disaster that whipped out entire communities and decapitated roadways throughout the country.
Long and hard, was how many Costa Ricans described the latest Costa Rica earthquake on February 13, 2012.
The quake was determined by OVSICORI to be 11kms deep at a 6.0 magnitude – which still stands as their determined richter scale grade.
No damage was reported.
OVSICORI was careful to say that this morning’s quake was related to Saturday’s 4.1 in the area of Playa Dominical (latitude 9.054, longitude -84.108).
There remains an alert issued by OVSICORI of potential after shocks.
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