2. Natural disasters in Costa Rica
Natural disasters are violent, sudden and destructive changes in the environment,
whose cause is not human activity, but natural phenomena, that is, that a natural
disaster is part of a process of nature, but that when having contact with humanity,
causes very serious problems.
Costa Rica's history has been marked by tragic disasters for as long as we can
remember. Located on two very active tectonic plates, it is highly exposed to natural
disasters such as earthquakes in a range of 42.6%.
It has the fifth position of countries with the highest risk index of natural disasters.
4. Earthquake in the
Nicoya Peninsula
01.
Raised on September 5, 2012 with
an intensity of 7.6°. Many people as
well as homes were damaged.
5. Hurricane Otto
02
Raised on November 24, 2016 with
fatalities of 10. Otto became the first
hurricane to touch Costa Rican soil in
174 years of record.
6. Eruption of the Arenal
volcano
03
Resurrected on August 24, 2000
with two fatalities. The incandescent
alarm overflowed along the trails of
the slope of the volcano causing this
terrible catastrophe.
7. The avalanche in Las
Lajas
04
Resurrected on November 4, 2010
with 21 fatalities. The rains were a
consequence of falling stones and
mud descended from the white peak
hill thus creating the avalanche.
8. Costa Rica is a country that has a high rate of natural
disasters for which measures were taken to:
* Shelters and safety zones in case of natural disasters.
* Relocation of homes from hazardous areas to safe areas
* Carrying out control studies in the face of catastrophic phenomena
* Avoid building houses on the slopes of the volcano.