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

2. REGIONAL TECTONIC SETTING

3. Seismicity of Central America 1900-2015 (M>5)

4. 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 1916 1950 1900 1990 1939 1916 1991 1904 1941 1983 11 10 9 8 87 868584 8382 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 200 40 100

5. Nicaragua vs S Costa Rica

7. Seismogenic zone and most recent earthquakes

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

10. 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.

11. Seimogenic zone and most recent earthquakes

15. Drilling the seismogenic zone

19. Broadband Seismic stations

20. Continuous GPS stations

21. MUCHAS GRACIAS