Tourists rescued by helicopters.

Costa Rica was the worst earthquake since 150 years shocked. Officially, 50 feared dead. Are still about a thousand people around the volcano Poas cut off from aid, tourists, however, with helicopters could be brought to safety.
  Poasito / Vara Blanca - After the worst earthquake in Costa Rica for 150 years, the rescue teams only gradually to the victims vorgekämpft. The National Crisis Cell CNE said on Friday from 15 salvaged dead and 42 missing, feared there were more than 50 deaths. President Oscar Arias said after a lightning visit to the disaster area at the Poas Volcano: "The effects are worse than I had imagined."

Around 150 foreign tourists were from the worst-affected area around Poas rescued, many had to be flown out by helicopter. Aerial photographs revealed that many were Erdhänge slipped off.
Desperate residents of the disaster area searched under rubble and earth after nationals - as Gisella Mora Padilla from San Rafael de Vara, whose son Jean Carlos in a collapsed dairy suspected.
The Poas Volcano is located about 40 kilometers from the capital, San Jose center. In the vicinity of the volcano was the epicenter of the earthquake of magnitude 6.2, which is on Thursday at 13:21 clock time (20.21 GMT clock) occurred. According to an estimate of the Red Cross on Friday evening were still about a thousand people in remote areas cut off from any help.
The tourists, with the helicopters were brought to safety, came from the United States, France, Canada and Spain. Many of them had become the La Paz-up waterfalls, one of the main tourist attractions of the Central American country. The landslides were the connections to numerous villages cut off. Dozens of houses collapsed, burying cars earth below.
Both the neighboring countries as well as the U.S. and China provided assistance. Two Blackhawk helicopters of the U.S. armed forces were from Honduras to the area were mobilized to participate in the rescue operations to participate. Among the fatalities was a twelve-year-old girl by a falling wall buried. In the earthquake zone live 2.5 million of a total of four million inhabitants of Costa Rica.