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Costa Rica Earthquake Scares Locals

Posted: January 8, 2009

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Costa Rica suffered a earthquake Thursday (January 9), causing widespread panic.

The 6.1 Costa Rica earthquake is said to have shattered windows and cracked walls, but there are no reports of injuries so far.

The Costa Rica earthquake epicenter was 22 miles (35 km) northwest of the capital of San Jose and was measured at a depth of 28 miles.

Authorities urged people to remain calm.

More if we have it.



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5 Archived Responses to “ Costa Rica Earthquake Scares Locals ”

  1. John
    Jan 8, 2009

    at the moment casualty's include two girls 7 and 9 due to land slide 9 students studying poas volcano missing in crater and near one thousand tourists stuck on poas and unable to get down the mountain for unknown reason atb this moment

  2. phyllis galatas
    Jan 8, 2009

    Hi,
    I'm traveling to Jaco on Sunday 1/11 how are the roads from San Jose? Are there any other problems due
    to earthquake?

  3. me
    Jan 8, 2009

    Actually, it was on January 8th

  4. News Review
    Jan 8, 2009

    Our deepest condolences to the family of the two children who have died. This is such sad event that opened the year of 2009. We hope and we pray that no more such disasters will follow.

  5. Earthquake News
    Apr 2, 2009

    That sounds like a pretty big earthquake to me. 28 miles inside the capital area and on the scale of 6.1 I've never experienced one and this is one I'm happy I wasn't there to see first hand.