Posted on 07/14/2011 11:56:31 AM PDT by TaraP
Today at approximately 2:11pm in the afternoon, Upala was rattled by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake that shook products off store shelves and rattled off home furnishings. No immediate damages were reported however later in the afternoon something strange was discovered as a result.
While reporting on the earthquake in Upala today, a local news station discovered that a district near the epicenter was missing a river. That’s right…A RIVER.
Apparently in the moments following the earthquake, a community stood watch as their river disappeared in to the Earth. As of this writing it is still unknown exactly which community this occurred in however once we have the name we will update this article. The affected citizens were interviewed and expressed concern for the loss of this substantial water supply to the area. Not only will this affect humans but also the livestock raised in the area.
Additionally there was also a 4.8 earthquake registered in Guanacaste near Santa Rosa de Bagaces today.
OVSICORI, the nations seismic activity center, has recorded over 4789 tremors in Costa Rica exceeding 1.0 on the Richter Scale.
With all this Earth movement and record rainfall, this is creating concern for areas along the Pacific Coast from landslides.
What is on the minds of many Ticos is whether or not this spike in activity is any indication of something bigger to come. Could this be the “big one” Costa Rica has been expecting? Guess we will have to wait and see.
In the meantime it is always good advice to have emergency supplies like canned foods, flashlights, batteries and water to be safer rather than sorry.
David Byrne was right...There IS water underneath the water!
Don’t sweat it, CR is a great safe country, when compared to MANY US cites. She’ll be fine.
Prayer that Jesus may look after your child as she travels to Costa Rica.....
Theory 1- The river is being diverted downward into the ground, where it is filling up cracks and holes. As the water fills, the sheer weight of it could put pressure on fault lines and possibly cause more, or more severe earthquakes.
Theory 2- That water is going down towards places where magma from below is heating the water. If enough of it gets heated, and to a point where the (likely boiling) water generates enough steam, it could return in the form of geysers. Or, if it can't find a way to release the pressure, a large, volcano-like steam explosion.
Any other theories?
Tis the season of the ditch
Ol’ man river,
Dat ol’ man river
He mus’know sumpin’
But don’t say nuthin’,
He jes’keeps rollin’
grrrummmbubububu
...
He don’t keeps on rollin’ along.
Thank you. It’s appreciated.
That makes alot of sense...I believe that is what transpired with Yellowstone thousands of years ago....
We're all gonna die!
I wonder if in some sense this isn´t the reverse of liquifaction whereby high, and saturated water tables sometimes inundate the surface during earthquakes. However, some areas, for various reasons, may form a temporarily impermeable basin over what would otherwise be a low water table that, when shaken hard enough, simply gives way allowing a broad enough volume to simply absorb what had previously been on the surface.
´Just going on what´s reported here. But one would have to do an on-site analysis to really get close to a cause.
There is little to fear in that country except the mosquitoes....
Make sure that she has plenty of DEET bug spray and she uses her mosquito netting properly....
My 21 year old daughter went there last year and didn’t seal here mosquito netting properly on a jungle campout. Multiple bites....4 days later she came down with Dengue fever.
When we flew her back to Miami, she spent initially 10 days in the hospital, released, then had to be readmitted after 1 week for another 7 days. It took her 3 months to recover and she is a very healthy athletic young woman.
The dwarves dug too greedily and too deep.
Most likely the quake fractured a pathway to a limestone deposit (buried by surficial volcanic deposits), or into old lava tubes.
I used to work with a lady that was moving to Costa Rica when she retired. She was batshit crazy, so I always assumed she was a democrat.
River Raptured.
LOL!!!
Take me to the river, drop me in the water.
Yes at some point we are all going to die. Best advice, just make sure your right with Jesus cause you never know when it's your turn. And by you I mean everyone :)
-——Wonder how all those wealthy Americans who moved to CR to avoid taxes are dealing with this?-——
Orlin J Grabbe died
He would be astounded by the current price of gold. The Rand, his cyber currency, would ba about the only stable currency on the planet.
Well, cry me a river!
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