MT-85

Natural disasters in
COSTA RICA
Students:
Olivares Morales María Fernanda
Chavéz Hernández José David
Cobarrubias Escamilla Miguel Ángel
Romero Sanchéz Wilibaldo
 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.
The most common disasters in Costa Rica are

01. Earthquakes Volcanic Eruptions

02.

03. Avalanches
04.
Hurricanes
 01.
Earthquake in the Nicoya
Peninsula

Raised on September 5, 2012 with an

intensity of 7.6°. Many people as well
as homes were damaged.
 02
Hurricane Otto

Raised on November 24, 2016 with

fatalities of 10. Otto became the first
hurricane to touch Costa Rican soil in
174 years of record.
 03
Eruption of the Arenal
volcano
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.
 04
The avalanche in Las Lajas

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.
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.