Potential SZO opportunities in Costa Rica Marino Protti Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica Universidad Nacional - OVSICORI-UNA.

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Potential SZO opportunities in Costa Rica Marino Protti Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica Universidad Nacional - OVSICORI-UNA

REGIONAL TECTONIC SETTING

Seismicity of Central America (M>5)

Tectonic Setting of Costa Rica.. ? Talamanca Cordillera Middle American Trench Pacific Ocean Cocos RidgePanama Fracture Zone Hess Escarpment Caribbean Sea Panama Thrust Belt Nicaragua Costa Rica Panama Nazca Plate Cocos Plate Caribbean Plate North American Plate 100 km 86 mm/yr 92 mm/yr o o o oo o o o o o 1992 Limon ODP Leg 170 QSC Nicaragua-Papagayo Cobano-Herradura Quepos-Sierpe Osa-Burica segment Nicoya segment Nicoya Gap Panama Block

Nicaragua vs S Costa Rica

Seismogenic zone and most recent earthquakes

Before the earthquake (2008) 1 year after the 2012 Nicoya earthquake

International Academic Cooperation u Susan Schwartz and Daniel Sampson, University of California, Santa Cruz. u Tim Dixon, University of South Florida. u Andy Newman, Georgia Tech. u Paul Lundgren and Susan Owen, JPL-NASA. u Lujia Feng, Earth Observatory of Singapore. u Jeff Marshall, California State University at Pomona. u Teruyuki Kato, University of Tokyo, Japan. u Yoshiyuki Kaneda, IFREE-JAMSTEC, Japan. u Takeshi Iinuma, Tohoku University, Japan. u Geoff Abers, Columbia University. u Karen Fisher, Brown University. u Tim Melbourne, Central Washington University. u Gerry Simila, California State University at Northridge. u MartinThorwart, CAU, Germany. u UNAVCO and IRIS consortiums.

Seimogenic zone and most recent earthquakes

Drilling the seismogenic zone

Broadband Seismic stations

Continuous GPS stations

MUCHAS GRACIAS