Located near Puerto Salvador Allende, Paseo Xolotlán re-creates, in miniature, how the city’s main thoroughfare looked before the earthquake. Visitors can walk through 13 blocks of old Managua ...

Update 2: The USGS now reports an earthquake of magnitude 2.8, 9km Northeast of Managua but, given the timestamp on their report, I believe that before the main quake. Checking around, there is ...

As a result, everyone in Managua knows where the store La Abanica, or the Fan, once stood, even though it fell in the 1931 earthquake, long before most present-day residents were born.

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 ...

When Guillermo Martin Treminio's house crumbled in the 1972 earthquake ... before the displaced regain a solid sense of home. That is certainly the case in many parts of historical downtown ...

The haphazard city plan is a legacy of the 1973 earthquake that flattened downtown Managua. Finding your way around any new place can be daunting, but Managua, a city of more than a million people ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 shook the northwestern coast of Nicaragua late Thursday night not far from the Honduran border. The U.S. Geological Survey ...

MANAGUA: A powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake occurred on Tuesday off ... which struck several hours before.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 5.1 quake occurred just before midnight Sunday, with an epicenter on the outskirts of Managua ... memories of the 1972 earthquake that killed 10,000 ...