http://www.panama-guide.com/article.php/earthquake-near-david (MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHA)
http://www.panama-guide.com/article.php/20090704085207821 (MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH part 2)
seismicity can only increase as more and more Americans move there, adding weight and increasing the stress in the contact areas of the plates
btw that guy has it wrong in BOTH articles, there are NO 'good' earthquakes, it would take A HELL OF A LOT 5.0 tremors to release the energy a 7 would release (the scale is not linear)
http://www.panama-guide.com/article.php/earthquake-near-david (MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHA)
http://www.panama-guide.com/article.php/20090704085207821 (MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH part 2)
seismicity can only increase as more and more Americans move there, adding weight and increasing the stress in the contact areas of the plates
btw that guy has it wrong in BOTH articles, there are NO 'good' earthquakes, it would take A HELL OF A LOT 5.0 tremors to release the energy a 7 would release (the scale is not linear)
I guess what you didn't catch was that my statement was a relative term. Relative to Costa Rica there weren't nearly as many earthquakes. Citing 2 earthquakes in Panama isn't really significant in relative terms. Hell, Indiana has had a couple large earthquakes but they are relatively less earthquake prone.
California won't slide into ocean, but there has to be huge quake coming within a few hundred years ( like an 8), an 8 could make it look like Haiti.
There was a 7.9 in 1857
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1857_01_09.php
The 7 in 1989 during the WS did some pretty severe damage, make that 10X stronger ( an 8), and I think you have Haiti like damage in Ca.
There was a 7.9 in 1857
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1857_01_09.php
The 7 in 1989 during the WS did some pretty severe damage, make that 10X stronger ( an 8), and I think you have Haiti like damage in Ca.
I did catch it but my point was that moving from CR to Panama (all being VERY close by to the touching points of several tectonic plates) is not going to work (specially if you dont specify panama as in Panama City, the northern city of David is very close to a point where THREE tectonic plates touch....there is a lot of friction there)
Hell, those two quakes I mentioned very within the LAST year
continental drift as a scientific theory came to light in 1912
In this graph you can see whats on the Pacific plate and what is on the North American plate
http://www.platetectonics.com/book/images/Transformfaults.gif
It's not close enough to be significant as shown by your seismicity map, especially when considering how many Costa Rica has. That's the whole point. Look at how many earthquakes are on the seismicity map in Costa Rica and look how few are in Panama.
You seem like you just like to argue and bring up points that are not relevant. A school child could see the difference yet you have to bring up irrelevant points like three tectonic plates being "very" close.
Imagine someone that moves (in June 2009) from CR to Panama to 'avoid' earthquakes and then the next thing they feel is one of those I mentioned in my links (is it clear or not that they failed??)
A kindergarden kid would figure out that you don't escape earthquakes by moving from a country to the neighboring one when both are in the pacific ring of fire AND on an area where three tectonic plates are busy interacting and they too have volcanoes blabla
In summary moving 200 miles north or south of costa rica won't get you out of earthquake risk (Americans have problems with geography so when speaking of Panama I want to be specific that I talk about Panama as in the country, obviously the province of Chiriqui and Bocas del Toro are part of Panama and actually David is popular among American retirees )
Yeah, I think I see the difference between your point and mine. Steak said "move to Panama" and you mention that Panama has earthquakes too.
However, the title here is "Earthquake Survival Tips" not "Avoid Earthquakes". Certainly there are still going to be earthquakes in Panama. My point was that relative to Costa Rica, Panama has fewer. That's the "relative" part I mentioned that you didn't get.
