Loading ...Not yet on USGS . had to be about a 6 .
Worst my wife has experienced and she was born here.
That was my 9th and by far the strongest .
No damage to our earthquake-resistant home .
The secret ? Second floor is poured concrete maintaining constant compressive stress on columns below , thus no cracks develop.
Update : Only a 5.6 , but the epicenter was near Cartago just down the road from here, 25 km ? Definitely the closest I have been to an epicenter . My wife was panicked for the first time since we’ve been married 16 years ago .