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1972 Nicaragua earthquake — Wikipedia (en)

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  title = {1972 Nicaragua earthquake — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Nicaragua_earthquake},
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The 1972 Nicaragua earthquake occurred at 12:29:44 a.m. local time (06:29:44 UTC) on 23 December near Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. It had a moment magnitude of 6.3 and a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive). The epicenter was 28 km (17 mi) northeast of the city centre with a depth of about 10 km (6.2 mi). The earthquake caused widespread casualties among Managua's residents: 4,000–11,000 were killed, 20,000 were injured and over 300,000 were left homeless.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «1972 Nicaragua earthquake» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Nicaragua_earthquake
Wikidata Q924446 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q924446
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Nicaragua_earthquake?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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