[Updated at 1:17 p.m. ET] A tsunami warning for Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama in the wake of a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the region has been canceled, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said Wednesday.
[Updated at 11:35 a.m. ET]A tsunami warning issued after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Coast Rica on Wednesday remains in effect for Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. The warning was canceled for other locations.
[Updated at 11:28 a.m. ET] The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, has issued an expanding regional tsunami warning and watch for parts of the Pacific located closer to the 7.6-magnitude quake off Costa Rica. The center said Hawaii could be elevated to watch or warning status as new data comes in.
[Updated at 11:18 a.m. ET] A tsunami watch issued for the Caribbean after a 7.6-magnitude quake struck the coast of Costa Rica has been canceled. The watch was inadvertently sent by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, and meant for the Pacific.
[Updated at 11:14 a.m. ET] The U.S. Geological Survey has reduced the magnitude of an earthquake that struck off the coast of Costa Rica from 7.9 to 7.6.
[Posted at 10:55 a.m. ET] An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.9 struck off the coast of Costa Rica, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The quake was recorded on the Costa Rican coast, about 95 miles west of the capital, San Jose, and ran more than 28 miles deep.
A tsunami watch was in effect for much of the Caribbean, including along the coastlines of Brazil, Mexico, most countries in Central America and many islands.
"Earthquakes of this size have the potential to generate a widespread destructive tsunami that can affect coastlines across the Caribbean region," the U.S. government said.
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"the coastline of Brazil"? Brazil is not in the Carribean...
Maybe they meant Belize, not Brazil.
"A tsunami watch was in effect for much of the Caribbean, including along the coastlines of Brazil" you should read more slowly... Including the Caribbean doesn't mean is part of it
I must be missing something.
Why would the coastline of Brazil be threatened? It doesn't have a coast on the Pacific. Does the tsunami plan to go through the Panama Canal?
Isthmus... Costa Rica is on an isthmus... thin piece of land with a large body of water on both sides. Shake up one side of the isthmus and what could happen on the other side...?
Help me out here. Why would Brazil be on alert? This may be a dumb question, but I'm looking for an explanation. I can't imagine, and I may be wrong, that with the location being on the Pacific side, plus the location in general, that there would be any need to be on alert in Brazil.
Seismic vibrartions travel through the ground and affect the water. Tremors would have been felt on both sides of the country so the possiblity of a Tsumani occurring on the Caribbean side is feasible.
I'd be looking for high ground.
They need to correct the geography descriptions in this article. In any case, here in Panama City I haven't felt any movement... so far.
Tsunami warning? yikes! good luck...
How can an earthquake that you say occurred in the Pacific cause a tsunami along the coast of Brazil and across the Carribbean??????
No tsunami warning ,:-) Good thing, a quake of that size is enough trouble.
If the earthquake was in the Pacific, why is there a Tsunami warning in the Caribbean?
How does the coast of Brazil come into play on this? The border the ATLANTIC ocean.
God must have heard tot mom was moving to Costa Rica.
I get it...another case of CNN stories being written by twentysomething nincompoop college interns.
do you think Nicaragua could be affected by a Tsunami? I have family there.
Some people seem to think that Brazil IS South America I guess, lol.
I just received a phone call from family in Playa Jaco located along the Pacific Coast in Costa Rica. House suffered some damage and lots of things broken. So far only have that they are ok and will let us know more soon. Trying to find out more info regarding the quake and the extent of damage throughout the country.
From PTWC "BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA A DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS
NOT EXPECTED AND THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII. REPEAT. A
DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS NOT EXPECTED AND THERE IS NO
TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII."
It is a cut and past3e, sorry for the caps.