What's up with all these tremors in CR

[truthteller]

There was one just 5 minutes ago after we had 1 on Friday and another Saturday.

Anyone else besides me think there might be another big one like there was in December?

 

[DimeBag]

um, maybe its that we sit astride a volcanic chain of mountains, or maybe because Bush got another four years and the earth gods are angry, or maybe both.

Dime

 

[wolfie_cr]

Not really truthteller, in here periodic tremors are quite common, typically there are several reasons such as local fault lines, volcanic tremors and on top of that the tectonic subduction (sp?) which is when the tectonic plates move one against the other one, there is a point in Punta Burica where you have not two but three plaques colliding

Tremors here will always be something common whether there is a big one coming or not

 

[JudgeWapner]

Thank God, thought it was the onset of Parkinson's disease.

 

[DimeBag]

Not really truthteller, in here periodic tremors are quite common, typically there are several reasons such as local fault lines, volcanic tremors and on top of that the tectonic subduction (sp?) which is when the tectonic plates move one against the other one, there is a point in Punta Burica where you have not two but three plaques colliding

Tremors here will always be something common whether there is a big one coming or not

thats what i meant to say.

Dime

 

[truthteller]

I have been living here for the last 6 years and never felt so many tremors like in the past 6-8 months.

 

[DimeBag]

So how do you feel about my G Dubya theory then?

Dime

 

[truthteller]

So how do you feel about my G Dubya theory then?

Dime

It might be worse if Kerry was elected.

 

[DimeBag]

Maybe a virgin sacrifice might appease the angry volcano
gods!

Dime

 

[WildBill]

Can anyone tell me how Quepos and MA are doing these days? Things back to normal with the roads and the towns by now?

 

[wolfie_cr]

"I have been living here for the last 6 years and never felt so many tremors like in the past 6-8 months."

The tremors are there all the time but most of the time they are felt only locally, that is, you read on the news (or I do anyway, in La Nacion) that a tremor of
'x' was felt in 'y' but it was not felt in San Jose.

Also the theory that small tremors actually prevent the big ones from happening doesn't hold, the richter scale is a logarithmic one, that is, a 5 is 10 times as strong as a 4 and so on so it would take 100 tremors magnitude 4 to actually release the energy that a "big one" of magnitude 6 would release.

There is a major one that is expected on Nicoya because the fault line has not moved in a good while and according to records it moves every 60 years, buildings made in that area try to account for this in their design so that they don't collapse when it happens

 

[Sticky]

Anyone else ever have 'personal quakes'? After a couple good tremors I catch myself imagining that the building is swaying sometimes. 'personal quakes' they happen! lol

 

[AdamSelene]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Maps/region/N_America.html

There are usually a few every week in Central America, some of which you may feel, others not.

 

[Redmond]

Quepos????

What happened in Quepos and MA, planning on spending my vacation there in a couple weeks?

Redmond

 

[WHALE]

:sad3: I really don't like talking about this things but I hope that nothing too serious will happen over there or anywhere...

 

[WildBill]

Redmond,

No one seems to know, I have asked that very question three times with not even a guess at an answer. I have an email of someone that lives in Quepos, I will write and see if I get an answer there.

 

[sportsbettingtrivia]

wolfie..

the last 6 months have been NUTS here with these small quakes..

I am in MALL SAN PEDRO..on the 8th floor..When this building..which I have named..The Starship Enterprise..starts to rock..No seat belt in the world is going to save us..

The ticos act casual during these quakes like its yesterdays newspaper...For me..there is nothing casual about the earth moving below my feet..To quote..Carole King..

 

[wolfie_cr]

Sportsbettingtrivia, to us these SMALL tremors are as common as a hurricane warning in Florida, with the exception that there is no "hurricane season", the last 5 years have been EXTREMELY calm, the last "big one" we had was in 1999 and then we got the one in November that shook Quepos, Manuel Antonio

Wildbill, take a look at this links

http://www.amcostarica.com/111904.htm

http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2004/noviembre/20/ultima-sr.html

http://www.diarioextra.com/2004/noviembre/22/

The people that live in Damas Island should leave the place (not that they have anywhere to go because of course they are pretty poor), apparently the island got huge cracks after the earthquake

All in all, and as Costa Rican that has lived here for all my life (30 years) this is COMMON, we get big ones every now and then, the constructions are always built with this in mind, the only ones that always have a problem here are the people that built where they shouldn't to start with, places that have been identified as geologically unstable and where land slides are 100% guarranteed

 

[truthteller]

The tremors are there all the time but most of the time they are felt only locally, that is, you read on the news (or I do anyway, in La Nacion) that a tremor of
'x' was felt in 'y' but it was not felt in San Jose.

I read and write Spanish and read the La Nacion everyday. These tremors are far more frequent these past 6 months than in the last 5 years or so.

 

[AdamSelene]

Probably just sensationalism given the recent earthquake in Quepos. I noticed a lot more tremors a few years ago (almost weekly), recently I haven't felt any. But I was on the 7th floor of a steel frame office tower, now I'm on the 3rd floor of a concrete office building. Perhaps it is just where you are sitting.

Also, earthquakes don't unnerve me at all. However my Tica wife gets completely hysterical at the slightest tremor. So YMMV.

Definitely true most damage (earthquakes and flooding both) is caused by poor construction and building in the wrong place. Almost 100% preventable.