哥斯達黎加強震1男1女死
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中美洲國家哥斯達黎加西海岸瓜納卡斯特省的薩馬拉區發生7.6級地震，已造成1男1女死亡。
報道說，遇難的2人中，一名男子在地震發生時正在工地作業被倒塌的建築物壓死，另一名55歲的女子因地震引發心臟病復發死亡。
哥斯達黎加電視台表示，有數十人受傷接受治療，但紅十字會無法證實這項消息。
強烈搖晃讓當地居民驚慌失措，連遠在尼加拉瓜和巴拿馬都可感受到搖晃，這是自1991年7.6級強震侵襲哥斯達黎加以來的最強烈地震，當年強震造成47人罹難。
地震在當地時間5日8時42分（香港時間5日22時42分）發生，此次地震的震源深度46公里。
地震1小時後已發生至少5次4級左右的餘震，西北部少數城市斷電。電視畫面顯示，震中附近地區房屋建築物牆壁、管道受損，部分道路、橋樑遭損壞。
哥國強震 華使館應急機制
明報 http://hk.news.yahoo.com/哥國強震-華使館應急機制-000605725.html
哥斯達黎加7.6級地震導致2人喪生，尚未收到華人和中國公民傷亡報告，而中國使館已啟動應急機制。
中國駐哥斯達黎加大使館政務參贊楊錫軍香港時間6日凌晨表示，哥斯達黎加7.6級地震目前已造成兩人喪生，30多人受傷，多處建築物損壞。中國駐哥斯達黎加大使館已啟動應急保護機制，目前暫無華僑華人及中國公民傷亡報告。
根據美國地質勘探局網站消息，中美洲國家哥斯達黎加西海岸當地時間5日8時42分（香港時間22時42分）發生7.6級強烈地震，地震震中位於哥斯達黎加首都聖何塞以西140公里處。美國太平洋海嘯警報中心隨後向哥斯達黎加、巴拿馬、尼加拉瓜等10個中美洲國家發出海嘯警報。
楊錫軍說，哥斯達黎加地處太平洋沿岸，是一個地震多發國，但此次地震是近年來比較強的一次，不但震感強烈，而且持續的時間也很長，「地震發生時我們剛剛上班，桌子上的辦公用品都震落到地上，庫裏面也有物品墜落損壞，但是大家都還好」。
她說，大使館所在的哥斯達黎加首都聖何塞不是此次地震的震中。地震發生後，使館一直在跟蹤當地媒體的報道，截至目前地震已造成兩人喪生，受傷30多人；從電視畫面可以看到，靠近震中的地方一些橋樑、道路、房屋出現裂痕或受到不同程度的損壞，但沒有大面積倒塌的現象出現。
楊錫軍表示，地震發生後，中國駐哥斯達黎加大使館迅速啟動應急保護機制，第一時間與當地中資機構和華僑華人打電話取得聯繫，了解各方面的情況，同時還向他們發出防餘震、防海嘯的預警。到目前掌握的情況看，沒有收到出現傷亡的報告，「我們還會繼續跟蹤震情的發展」......
Powerful earthquake reported in Costa Rica
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/05/pacific-tsunami-warning-in-effect-after-quake-in-costa-rica/
CANGREJAL, Costa Rica – A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swath of Central America on Wednesday, collapsing some houses, blocking highways and causing panic and at least one death from a heart attack.
Costa Rica President Laura Chinchilla announced there were no reports of major damage and called for calm.
At the epicenter, the beach town of Cangrejal, Jairo Zuniga, 27, said everything in his house fell when the quake hit at 8:42 a.m. (10:42 a.m. EDT).
"It was incredibly strong. I've felt earthquakes, but this one was 'wow,' he said.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered about 38 miles from the town of Liberia and 87 miles west of the capital, San Jose, where frightened people ran into the streets.
The magnitude initially was estimated at 7.9, but was quickly downgraded. Local residents said it shook for about 30 seconds and was felt as far away as neighboring Panama and Nicaragua, where school was canceled in some areas.
Officials initially warned of a possible tsunami, and local police supervisor Jose Angel Gomez said about 5,000 people — 80 percent of the population — had been evacuated from coastal towns in the Samara district west of the quake's epicenter. But by mid-day they were allowed to return.
Panama also briefly called for people to evacuate beach areas.
In Costa Rica, one man died of a heart attack caused by fright, said Carlos Miranda, a Red Cross worker in the city of Liberia.
Douglas Salgado, a geographer with Costa Rica's National Commission of Risk Prevention and Emergency Attention, said officials a landslide hit the main highway that connects the capital of San Jose to the Pacific coast city of Puntarenas, and hotels and other structures suffered cracks in walls and saw items knocked off shelves.
Rosa Pichardo, 45, who lives in Samara, was walking on the beach with her family when the quake hit.
"When we felt the earthquake, we held onto each other because we kept falling," Pichardo said. "I've never felt anything like this. We just couldn't stay standing. My feet gave out under me. It was terrible, terrible."
In the town of Hojancha a few miles from the epicenter, city official Kenia Campos said the quake knocked down some houses and landslides blocked several roads.
"So far, we don't have victims," she said. "People were really scared ... We have had moderate quakes but an earthquake (this strong) hadn't happened in more than 50 years."
Michelle Landwer, owner of the Belvedere Hotel in Samara, north of the epicenter, said she was having breakfast with about 10 people when the earthquake struck.
"The whole building was moving, I couldn't even walk," Landwer said. "Here in my building there was no real damage. Everything was falling, like glasses and everything."
In the coastal town of Nosara, roughly 20 miles southwest of the epicenter, trees shook violently and light posts swayed. Teachers chased primary school students outside as the quake hit. Roads cracked and power lines fell to the ground.
Wednesday's quake occurred in a seismically active zone where the Pacific tectonic plate is diving beneath Central America.
"All along the Pacific coast of Central America, you can expect fairly big earthquakes," said seismologist Daniel McNamara of the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quake was fairly deep — 25 miles below the surface. Deeper events tend to be less damaging than ones closer to the surface, but more widely felt.
"If it was a shallower event, it would be a significantly higher hazard," he said.
The last deadly quake to strike Costa Rica was in 2009, when 40 died in a magnitude-6.1 temblor. The last similar-sized quake to hit the country was in 1991 when 47 people were killed in the Limon-Pandora area.
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「Planet X」對地球的影響已經出現，因「Planet X」接近的巨大引力，導致地震越來越頻繁，按統計，剛過去的三十日，全球已錄得超過七千個地震紀錄。情況令人震驚！
