An earthquake awoke hundreds of Costa Ricans this Sunday. The quake was recorded at 5:34 a.m., about 15 kilometers north of Quepos, Puntarenas. At 9:08 a.m. another movement of the same magnitude was recorded in a nearby area, 17 kilometers north of Dominical. Ronny Quintero, a seismologist from OVSICORI, says they received reports of strong […]
Costa Rica News, Summarized in English and Linked to the Source
500 meters of trammel nets and a boat were seized in Colorado River
During a patrol control held this weekend at the mouth of the Colorado River in the North Caribbean coast, the National Coast Guard Service (SNG) managed to seize 500 meters of trammel nets and a canoe. The SNG had registered several complaints about illegal fishing in the area, so they conducted a series of patrols, […]
Flames consumed a bus in Cartago
At a quarter past 1 on Sunday afternoon, a bus that was traveling on the route from San Martin to Cot in Cartago, caught on fire and was completely consumed by the flames. According to information provided by Firefighter’s communications department, the fire destroyed a bus with passengers in it, but no injuries were reported,” […]
This is how the first 100% Costa Rican satellite will arrive to the space
The first Costa Rican satellite is very different. It is only a small cube of 10x10x10 centimeters with metallic edges that can be held in one hand. The nanosatellite, known as the Irazú Project, has dozens of high-caliber Costa Rican engineers and professionals focused on an ambitious goal: to put the first 100% Costa Rican […]
Mosquitoes don’t like cold weather
According to the Ministry of Health, new cases of zika, dengue and chikungunya tend to be less in recent weeks. The atypical year was 2015, because it started very well and ended very bad. Historically. during these weeks of the year, cases decrease, it is normal since it is the cold season, explained Rodrigo Marín, […]
Migrants were were evacuated from care centers during hurricane Otto’s emergency
Over a thousand migrants in Costa Rica, located in the South Zone and the North, were evacuated from care centers during Hurricane Otto. A red alert was decreed in the canton of La Cruz, in Guanacaste. Migrants were allocated in a school in La Cruz. In addition, each camp was taken down and the tents […]