Costa Rica, rude awakening by violent Earthquake

-Slim- · Nov 20, 2004

2:07 am today, a 6.2 earthquake hit Costa Rica. There have been 79 repilicas through 6:30 am........ many places have no electricity, some roads have been ripped opened, houses destroyed and several people killed are the outcome....

Ive been through a 6.6 and a 7.4 before but last nights quake was special... the previous ones have been shaking from side to side with oscillating movements, last nights was like grabbing someone and shaking them furiously up and down and slightly to the sides.....

Will post pics when they are available....

Ironically, we are hosting a meeting of many latin american presidents right now so they were all here for the rude awakening...
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JudgeWapner · Nov 20, 2004

Slim,where was the epi- center?

wolfie_cr · Nov 20, 2004

http://www.ovsicori.una.ac.cr/20nov2004quepos.htm

-Slim- · Nov 20, 2004

another person just died, a woman in a hospital with a heart condition confirmed dead earlier today....

there are like 10 people dead right now....:S including an italian that crashed on his motorcycle on a highway......

-Slim- · Nov 20, 2004

Judge, yup in the southwest.....

-Slim- · Nov 20, 2004

8 kms northeast of Quepos, the depth of the quake was only 18 kms... (for those not aware, how strong a quake is felt varies according to both size and how deep the thing occurs, in this case 18 kms is not very deep, which makes the quake feel awhole lot stronger for those caught in it...

JudgeWapner · Nov 20, 2004

Damn.

-Slim- · Nov 20, 2004

Not that its significant but I really feared for my fishtanks so I ran for em and boy oh boy those things shook like hell, water all over the place and the fish swaying back and forth in the water......

Judge I believe this is the strongest one youve felt huh?

-Slim- · Nov 20, 2004

Epicenter was basically Quepos.

-Slim- · Nov 20, 2004

Quepos is in the area called Pacifico Central.

truthteller · Nov 20, 2004

7 persons have died so far.

wolfie_cr · Nov 20, 2004

Earthquake magnitudes are hard to use as reference points, mainly because the devastation is affected by many many factors (quality of construction, location of epicenter vrs heavily populated areas etc)

1972 Nicaragua earthquake was 6.2 and had a death toll of about 5k people

Costa Rica thankfully hasn't had any recent major earthquakes with epicenters close to San Jose, Cartago etc.

-Slim- · Nov 20, 2004

working on 87 replicas now...

JudgeWapner · Nov 20, 2004

Slim,def the strongest in the 5 years I have been here.

-Slim- · Nov 20, 2004

this one didnt even last that long...imagine the one in 94 (i believe) lasted about 45 seconds (that will break anyone, lol)

JudgeWapner · Nov 20, 2004

Slim,can't imagine that. Last night's first tremor seemed like a half an hour.

quantumleap · Nov 20, 2004

I guess Colombia had a 7.2 earthquake last Monday.

Here's a map of earthquakes in North and Central America. Click on the square on Costa Rica for more details.

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

Magnitude 6.2
Date-Time Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 08:07:23 (UTC)
= Coordinated Universal Time
Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 2:07:23 AM
= local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 9.552°N, 84.223°W
Depth 25.2 km (15.7 miles) set by location program
Region COSTA RICA
Distances
45 km (30 miles) SSW of SAN JOSE, Costa Rica
80 km (50 miles) SE of Puntarenas, Costa Rica
140 km (85 miles) WSW of Limon, Costa Rica
155 km (95 miles) NW of Golfito, Costa Rica

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 4 km (2.5 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters Nst=229, Nph=229, Dmin=114.5 km, Rmss=0.85 sec, Gp= 40°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID usrban

rude_awakening · Nov 20, 2004

You called?

osu2winbig12 · Nov 20, 2004

Do the sportsbooks have redundant servers in other countries, just in case an earthquake destroys their data center in Costa Rica?

Is it possible that a sportsbook could lose all of their account information, etc. due to an earthquake?

Later,
osu2winbig12

WildBill · Nov 20, 2004

Lose information? Extremely unlikely. Be put out of service for awhile due to lack of power and chaos preventing workers getting to the offices? Much more of a possibility unfortunately.