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Costa Rica: Earthquake Felt and Reported on Twitter

Written byEduardo Avila
Posted 19 November 2008 6:51 GMT

Cristian Cambronero of @fusildechispas [es] felt the recent earthquake in San José, Costa Rica and noticed others on Twitter did too, “16 tweets in the first minute after a strong earthquake in San José.”

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  • Heidy Barrantes

    Estoy en los Estados Unidos y me he enterado del terremoto.

    Quisiera saber como esta todo por alla? Tengo familia en Tibas, Cartago , Guanacaste y Alajuela.

    Me podrian decir cual es la situacion?

    Muchas gracias.

    8 January 2009, 21:08 pm
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