An alarm blared throughout downtown San José. Users flooded Twitter with the hashtag #TemblorCR. And throughout Costa Rica, more than a million people evacuated homes, schools and…
If you live in an area that is prone to earthquakes, it’s important to know what to do when one hits. Costa Rica is one of those…
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Costa Rica at 3:14 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. According to the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI), the quake had an estimated…
If you live in an area that is prone to earthquakes, it’s important to know what to do when one hits. Costa Rica is one of those…
Leave it to Costa Ricans to turn an unnerving nighttime earthquake into immediate fodder for a nationwide joke. After a magnitude 6.7 earthquake rattled the country at…
Much of Costa Rica was awakened Tuesday night as a 6.7-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks rattled the country. According to national authorities, the quake had an epicenter…
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake shook Costa Rica at 1:24 pm Sunday afternoon. The earthquake had an epicenter approximately 7.5 km south of the town of Corredor, Puntarenas. It…
Much has been made for years – including in a recent National Geographic cover story – of Costa Rica's position at our near the top of various international happiness…
Since an earthquake strong enough to be felt across the country is enough to distract even the most avid selfie-taker, it's perhaps not surprising that one of…
Updated on Monday, Nov. 13 to include information about a third death related to the earthquake. Three deaths have now been reported in the wake of the…
