but that's nothing, check out what happened just down the road...

The magnitude 6.1 tremor devastated the Poas Volcano National Park north of the capital San Jose, triggering landslides blocking roads and damaging buildings.
Red Cross officials said 10 of the victims were buried by a landslide at the popular La Paz waterfall.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7819094.stm

http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=costa-rica-rocked-by-earthquake-2009-01-08  (older newsfeed with video)

we felt a slight rocking where we were, near arenal volcano.

will do some more photoblogging when i get back to italia, in 5 days. internet has been sketchy, and to flickr all the pics will take a better connection than i have been finding here.

super country, fine people, happy camper...

pura vida

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~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~