On December 23, 1972, a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 struck Managua, Nicaragua killing 5,000, injuring 20,000, and leaving 250,000 homeless. Nicaraguan blogger Homero was a young child at ...

We want to bridge divides to reach everyone. When Guillermo Martin Treminio's house crumbled in the 1972 earthquake that leveled Nicaragua's capital, killing 10,000 people and destroying 50,000 ...

Hundreds of aftershocks were reported. Nicaragua has a long history of earthquakes. A 6.2 quake in 1972 destroyed much of Managua and left between 3,000 and 7,000 dead – many victims were left ...

In the ten years prior to the overthrow of the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, US television - all networks - devoted exactly one hour to Nicaragua, and that was entirely on the Managua ...

Before a 6.3 magnitude earthquake destroyed Nicaragua’s capital in 1972, leveling all but five of the city’s major buildings and claiming some 10,000 to 20,000 lives, Managua was once known as the ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 shook Nicaragua Thursday (April 10), according ... beneath Managua destroyed much of the capital city in 1972, displacing two-thirds of the city's 325,000 residents ...

In 2014, a 6.2 earthquake in western Nicaragua killed at least one person and injured 33 others. In 1972, an earthquake of the same magnitude hit 48km (30 miles) north of the capital Managua ...

Officials said the recent tremors had reactivated a fault which caused a devastating earthquake in 1972. Between 5,000 ... In the past week, Nicaragua was hit by three quakes of magnitudes ranging ...

The Central American nation of Nicaragua was hit by an earthquake ... according to El Pueblo Presidente. A 1972 earthquake of just 6.2 magnitude, albeit less than 20 miles from Managua, killed ...