Earthquake Hits Costa Rica – Sept 5th, 2012

[(Snake)]

My country.

 

NOSARA, Costa Rica – A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swath of Central America on Wednesday, collapsing some houses, blocking highways and causing panic, but officials said there were no reports of deaths.

 

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered about 38 miles (60 kilometers) from the town of Liberia. The magnitude initially was estimated at 7.9, but was quickly downgraded. Local residents said it shook for about 30 seconds.

 

While officials cancelled an initial tsunami warning, local police supervisor Jose Angel Gomez said about 5,000 people – 80 percent of the population – had been evacuated from coastal towns in the Samara district west of the quake's center several hours after the quake struck at 8:42 a.m. (10:42 a.m. EDT; 1442 GMT).

 

He said water was receding from the shore. One man died of a heart attack caused by fright, said Carlos Miranda, a Red Cross worker in the city of Liberia, but there were no reports of deaths directly caused by the quake.

 

http://ticotimes.com...e-sept-5th-2012

http://earthquake.us...000cfsd#summary

 

Thanks God there was only like 1 or 2 deaths reported, but still there are lot of damage to buildings and roads in the north region.

[goku]

OMG glad your ok!!

[hobbit]

How will you work now that most of your clients lawns are a mess? Jk bro, glad youre alright

[BnBChumMaster]

Seen allot of damage posted on various news sites, pretty bad there, first thing I saw was the tsunami warnings on my alert page. I still wanna see one of those.

 

glad to see your alright.

[rockrocks508]

omg so sad i am so glad to see you okay