Earthquake — Costa Rica: Limon, Pandora; Panama

When

22 Apr 1991

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.6

Where

Costa Rica

Coordinates

9.69° N, 83.07° W

Deaths

90

Injuries

895

Damage musd

510

Intensity mmi

10

Depth km

10

Earthquake in Central America

The 1991 Costa Rica earthquake, also known as the Limon earthquake or Bocas del Toro earthquake, occurred at 3:57 pm local time on April 22. The epicenter of the 7.7 Mw earthquake was in Pandora, Valle La Estrella, in the Caribbean region of Limon, Costa Rica, 225 kilometres (140 mi) southeast of San José.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A 7.7 Limon earthquake strikes Costa Rica and Panama with a maximum Mercalli intensity, causing between 47 and 87 deaths and up to 759 injuries”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Costa Rica se registra un terremoto de 7,7 que deja un saldo de 127 muertos y 759 heridos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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