Tico Times #TBT: The earthquake that rattled Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast
In the early hours of April 22, 1991, a magnitude-7.7 earthquake struck the Caribbean coasts of Costa Rica and Panama. Costa Rica’s strongest earthquake of all time killed 48 people and destroyed 4,452 homes.
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