EARTHQUAKE AT COSTA RICA.
Washington, February 22
The Costa Rica Minister here has received a cablegram containing the single word “ Earthquake. ” He fears that some disaster has overtaken the country. Telegraphic communication with Costa is interrupted. Costa Rica is the most southerly of the Central American Republic, lying between Nicaragua and Panama. The country is intersected by a mountainous region in which there are a number of volcanoes, extinct and active. Irazu, or the volcano of Cartago, is freely active, aud it has given rise to several destructive seismic disturbances. Earthquakes are frequent, and the town of Cartago has suffered complete or extensive effacemeut six times—in 1,723, 1,803, 1.825, 1.841. 1,851, and 1,854. Cartago is about fourteen miles (east-south-east of San Jose, the capital, at an altitude of 4,700 feet, and is a substantial, well-built town with a population of 8,000 to xo.ooo. It is connected by rail with Pureto Iffmon, on the Carribean coast,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1011, 24 February 1912, Page 3
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155EARTHQUAKE AT COSTA RICA. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1011, 24 February 1912, Page 3
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