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发帖数: 26623 | 1 Reports are beginning to surface that indicate a chaotic aftermath following
a powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake in Costa Rica and a wide swath of
Central America on Wednesday.
According to the USGS, the 8:42 a.m. quake struck about 38 miles (60
kilometers) from the town of Liberia. It was centered about 25 miles (41
kilometers) below the surface. The magnitude initially was estimated at 7.9.
While no initial reports of damage or deaths in the earthquake zone near the
Pacific coast, nor in the capital of San Jose have been reported, Douglas
Salgado, a geographer with Costa Rica's National Commission of Risk
Prevention and Emergency Attention told the Associated Press that officials
were having problems accessing the zone and reaching people in the area.
Authorities are currently flying over the area to assess damage to highways
and other structures, he added.
Multiple news outlets are reporting that the quake did not knock out phones
or electricity in San Jose, 88 miles (141 kilometers) from the epicenter,
but communications were down near the epicenter.
"There's chaos in San Jose because it was a strong earthquake of long
duration," Salgado told AP. "It was pretty strong and caused collective
chaos."
An employee at the Hotel Punta Islita in the Guanacaste area spoke to the
Associated Press via phone call and told the newswire that "everybody is
crying a lot and the telephone lines are saturated."
Reports indicate that trees shook violently and light posts swayed as the
quake was felt in the coastal town of Nosara in northwest Costa Rica.
A tsunami warning was in effect for Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua, the
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in a bulletin. It said it was unknown if
a tsunami was generated, but the warning was based on the size of the
earthquake. | c*********r
发帖数: 2097 | 2 Haha. 我今天早上也听到这个news 了。 此 San Jose 非彼 San Jose... | b********2
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发帖数: 2162 | 4 无良老邢标题党，分明是哥斯达黎加的san jose |
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