02 August 2009

Wow, That Was... A Letdown

So, Costa Rica is a seismically active place. After all, there are active volcanoes here. I've been here a little over five months and hadn't yet experienced an earthquake.

Until sometime in the middle of the night on Fri/Sat. Jen told me when we got up yesterday morning that there was a small one.

And I slept through it. How unfair.

Well!! Last night, as we watched Alladin with Julia, I felt a tremor of the couch... and then realized -- just as Jen said it -- that my foot, which was on the tiled floor (on top of a concrete pad), felt the same tremor.

(image from here)

I have now experienced my first Central American earthquake.

3 comments:

Dr. Monkey Von Monkerstein said...

Dude, stop passing off your farting as earthquakes. ;0)

Steve said...

Glad you survived bro!

Saoirse in Spokane said...

Pretty cool. Volcanoes and earthquakes fascinate me. Growing up in SF bay area we had earthquakes all the time. I plan on visiting Mt St Helens sometime this summer. They are predicting it may blow again in our lifetime.

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