Earthquake and the aftermath

There was terremoto (big earthquake) here in Costa Rica on January 8th. It registered a 6.2 on the Richter scale. Luckily, it wasn’t in my province, so we didn’t get any of the devastating effects, but we definitely felt it. Being from Arizona, earthquakes a really new phenomenon for me. When this one happened I was sitting in Marta’s kitchen after lunch with Hilbert, but in Santa Rosa it didn’t feel THAT big. We later saw on the news that it has already claimed about 20 lives, and there are people still missing. We are still feeling afterschocks in the 4.0 range. It is on the news all day long, and it can get kind of depressing to watch. The people of the Poas volcano region are definitely in my thoughts and prayers; it is going to be a big task to recuperate in towns where nearly everything was destroyed.