The earthquake took place near the Poas volcano and there’s an impressive Youtube video from one of the tv stations that really captures what happened (and is still happening).

There’s a lot of coverage from ticos on Twitter reporting live, which is amazing. Technology has come such a long way for this to be a reality (getting reports live from people experiencing it). I’m in the loop even though I’m nowhere close to Costa Rica right now.

The highways are collapsing with traffic making it impossible to get around the capital. There’s reports of casualties already, people are being sent home by employers and there are still smaller earthquakes happening three hours after the first one. Newspapers websites and local internet is saturated, the biggest newspaper in the country set up a live chat on their home page for people to report on and others to stay in the loop.

I’ll be keeping an eye on twitter for more reports and information.

Today I will mention the turtles, leatherback turtles in particular. Costa Rica is famous for being a place where thousands of them come to lay eggs. If you want to learn more about why they come here, or about turtles in general, this is a very good start page, but for now, I want to just share a few pictures.

I posted more pictures in this Flickr photoset, so head on over there to check the rest of the pictures. You’ll see the hole where they got the turtles from, and well, a bunch of young turtles (most of them will not last long though). My sister was smart and recorded a video (cameraphone quality though):

I hope you enjoyed that, it’s amazing watching the little guys get in the water. Too bad most of them never make it.