Earthquake — Nicaragua: Masachapa; Costa Rica

When

2 Sep 1992

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.6

Where

Nicaragua

Coordinates

11.50° N, 87.61° W

Deaths

170

Injuries

489

Damage musd

30

Houses destroyed

1500

Depth km

30

Earthquake and tsunami off the west coast of Nicaragua

The 1992 Nicaragua earthquake occurred off the coast of Nicaragua at 6:16 p.m. on 1 September. Some damage was also reported in Costa Rica. At least 116 people were killed and several more were injured. The earthquake was caused by movement on a convergent plate boundary. It created a tsunami disproportionately large for its surface-wave magnitude.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The 7.7 Nicaragua earthquake affects the west coast of Nicaragua”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Nicaragua se registra un destructivo terremoto de 7,7 y un tsunami que dejan 116 fallecidos y varios heridos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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