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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Birdingcraft" data-source="post: 1381190" data-attributes="member: 55810">Like most people living around San Jose, we felt strong shaking and it was pretty scary but no one was hurt. A different story near the epicenter. If planning a visit to CR, don't expect to be able to visit the road from Varablanca to San Miguel. They might be able to fix the upper part of the road near Varablanca, but the rest is very unlikely because the topography of that area has been literally changed; the road ran along the top of the fault line. Cinchona is to be abandoned and it is pretty unlikely that Virgen del Socorro will be accessible for some time- in all likelihood much of the habitat was probably destroyed there.Alternate sites with many of the same species would be: Quebrada Gonzalez in Braulio Carrillo National Park, Rancho Naturalista and Tapanti Wildlife Refuge.</blockquote>