A strong, 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean near Costa Rica on Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 1:43 p.m. Eastern about ...

The next time your smartphone shakes it might be because the earth did too. The University of Costa Rica’s National Seismological Network (RSN) released a free smartphone app this month to alert ...

Scientists using GPS to study changes in the Earth’s shape accurately forecasted the size and location of the magnitude 7.6 Nicoya earthquake that occurred in 2012 in Costa Rica.

A 6.2 Richter scale earthquake has hit Costa Rica. Jaguar del Platanar [es] posts a Google mashup map indicating sites that have suffered damage. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and ...

Costa Rica quake centered 69 km southwest of capital San Jose, ... Strong earthquakes hit Costa Rica, ... A map showing the epicentre of the quake in the Pacific Ocean.

A magnitude-4.2 earthquake was felt at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday in Costa Rica, according to the Seismic Engineering Laboratory at the University of Costa Rica. The epicenter was located in Pérez Zeledón in ...

Strong earthquake hits Costa Rica. Powerful 7.6-magnitude quake struck near Pacific coast, ... Costa Rica. A map showed the quake on land near the Pacific coast, in Guanacaste province.

The historic earthquake record in Costa Rica also boosted the group's forecast accuracy. Three earthquakes larger than magnitude-7.5 struck the Nicoya Peninsula in the last 160 years, in 1853 ...

Scientists were watching closely as a subduction zone along Costa Rica built to its breaking point in 2012. When a magnitude-7.6 earthquake finally ripped open the offshore fault on Sept. 5, 2012 ...

Scientists using GPS to study changes in the Earth's shape accurately forecasted the size and location of the magnitude 7.6 Nicoya earthquake that occurred in 2012 in Costa Rica.

Magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes near Parrita, Costa Rica Updated Nov 12, 2017 7:30 p.m. A preliminary magnitude 6.5 earthquake was reported Sunday night near Parrita, Costa Rica.