Eighteen deaths on the mountain so far make this is the deadliest disaster in Everest history. Many had travelled to Nepal for the start of the annual climbing season, which was cancelled last year after 16 sherpa guides were killed in what was previously the deadliest disaster in the mountain's history.
In the latest seismological event to happen in Costa Rica this week, a magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck off the country’s southern coast at 2:37 p.m. Saturday. There were no initial reports of damage.
Officials said at least 876 people are known to have died in Nepal, making it the worst earthquake there in more than 80 years. Ten people were reportedly killed when an avalanche buried parts of Mount Everest's base camp in Nepal where hundreds of mountaineers have gathered at the start of the annual climbing season.
The first quake had a magnitude of 4.8 with an epicenter some 10 kilometers from Pérez Zeledón. A magnitude-5.2 aftershock at 12:42 p.m. was followed by a magnitude-2.3 temblor at 12:50 p.m., according to initial reports from OVSICORI.
A strong temblor with a magnitude of 4.8 shook residents in several communities in the northwestern province of Guanacaste at 7:12 a.m. Four hours later, a magnitude-4.9 was registered near the border with Panama, according to the University of Costa Rica’s National Seismological Network.
A magnitude-6.8 earthquake was the latest in a series of temblors rocking Central America. According to the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica, the quake struck at 2:51 a.m. Monday off the coast of Costa Rica’s Burica Peninsula, along the western border with Panama.
Halloween revelers in Desamparados, just south of San José, got a scare in the early hours Saturday morning when a magnitude-4.2 earthquake shook the suburb.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – A powerful magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck off the coast of Central America late Monday, killing at least one person and prompting a brief tsunami warning.
Costa Rica's National Seismological Network has released a handy list of the country's 70 "most historic" (read: worst) earthquakes. We went into our archives to dig up some old photos of some of the most memorable ones.
