A powerful earthquake rocked Costa Rica yesterday, causing the deaths of at least two people, damaging buildings, and briefly triggering a tsunami warning.
Residents of the capital San Jose said phones went down, electricity poles rattled on the streets and water flowed out of pools after the 7.6-magnitude quake. There were also unconfirmed media reports of people being treated for injuries.
A spokesman for the local Red Cross said two people died, one from a heart attack. He was not able to confirm media reports the other person had been crushed under a collapsing wall. The quake was the biggest to hit Costa Rica since a 7.6-magnitude quake in 1991 left 47 dead. – (Reuters)
