Costa Rica is a country with a huge tectonic riches to the seismologists, but also is a hight risk zone. Defining those zones is important to warn the population. Until now, most of the data analysis is carried out using two-dimensional systems. For these reasons, we developed Plinius, with this tool we reduce the cognitive burden involved in this type of visualization, helping visualize earthquake hypocenters for earthquakes occurred during 1984-2016, thereby, a total of 1012,413 earthquakes. One of the most important problems to resolve is: how it be defined seismic profiles to determine hight risk areas? In this paper, we present the interface that is proposed in Plinius like an answer to the seismic profile problem. The objective of the seismic profiles is to display a cross-section cut showing tectonic plate subduction trends. This paper presents an overview of an intuitive human interface that allows users to access multiples seismic profiles within a few seconds. This interface is part of Plinius, a 3D tool that visualizes all earthquakes occurred in Costa Rica since 1984. Plinius was developed explicitly for this purpose. Through Plinius, the location of 112,413 earthquakes occurring from 1984-2016 can now be observed in three dimensions. Additionally, the user can save images and data in several formats for comparison and analysis at a later time.

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