The 1972 Managua Earthquake: A City Destroyed

The 1972 Managua Earthquake: A City Destroyed

  In 1972 an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 struck Nicaragua and destroyed its capital city, Managua.  The events following this devastating natural disaster contributed greatly to the Sandinista Revolution a few years later.  I visited Nicaragua at the beginning of the civil war.  My first inkling of trouble occurred at the border, where … Continued

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