so is the st francis who is now predicting the plane crash, etc. the one and the same that predicted ca quake? somebody set me straight please

-- confused (no@no.no), August 20, 1999

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St. Francis was a medieval mystic who left his wealthy circumstances to embrace Lady Poverty, and ended up founding a Roman Catholic religious order and being ordained a deacon. He is the patron saint of animals because he talked to them often. That's the real St. Francis.

-- robert waldrop (rmwj@soonernet.com), August 20, 1999.

St. Francis has predicted an earthquake in the Yucatan or in Guatemala, he says it will happen in 10 days which was 2 days ago. He has 8 days left for his prediction to come true.

-- no kidding (nokidding@nokiddinggg.com), August 20, 1999.

Well... this may qualify. The Northridge quake, as I recall, came in at around 6.7 will 11,000 homes/business damaged.

San Jose Mercury News -- Breaking News

Posted at 7:04 a.m. PDT Friday, August 20, 1999

Earthquake hits Costa Rica; no casualties

http:/ /www.mercurycenter.com/breaking/docs/007103.htm

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 shook Costa Rica early today. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

Don Blakeman, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., said the earthquake occurred at 4:02 a.m. local time.

The epicenter was 55 miles south of San Jose, the capital.

Temblors of magnitude 6 can cause serious damage. Blakeman said he had no early reports of damage but ``wouldn't be at all surprised considering the magnitude'' if there was some damage.

A spokesman for the Costa Rican Red Cross, Mario Vequez, said the organization also had no reports of damages or injuries. Because of Costa Rica's vulnerability to frequent earthquakes, most buildings in the country are no more than three stories high, making them less prone to damage.

Officials at a hotel in Puerto Quepos, on the Pacific coast near the quake's epicenter, told the center they felt the temblor but suffered no damage.

The quake rattled almost the entire country and was felt strongly in villages along the Pacific coastline and the major cities in the central valley, where most of the 3.5 million people of the Central American country live.

Blakeman said he had no reports of the quake being felt in neighboring countries.

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), August 20, 1999.

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