The National Emergency Commission (CNE) is installing tsunami-alert sirens in five Puntarenas towns, the institution announced this week. The communities of Tivives, Jacó, Esterillos Oeste and Quepos…
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake shook Costa Rica on Monday afternoon. According to data from the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI), the earthquake occurred at…
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake shook Costa Rica early Sunday morning. According to revised data from the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI), based at Universidad…
An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 was registered Tuesday in southern Mexico, reported the National Seismological Service, though so far authorities have not reported serious damage. The US…
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake shook Costa Rica on Friday night. According to initial data from the National Seismological Network (RSN), the earthquake occurred at 8:40 p.m. The…
Costa Rica will welcome some of the world's top scientific minds when it hosts Math + X, a symposium organized by Rice University, this week. The three-day…
Maybe earthquakes are the secret to a long life. A magnitude 5.5 earthquake shook Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula at 12:31 p.m. Sunday, according to data from the…
So much for a relaxing Sunday night. A magnitude 5.4 earthquake shook much of Costa Rica at 7:33 p.m., according to preliminary data from the National Seismological…
How did you sleep last night? A pair of tremors -- the first on the Caribbean coast, and the second on the Pacific -- shook Costa Rica on…
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…
