SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake rocked Costa Rica on Wednesday, 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,(TheBlaze/AP) -- A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swath of Central America on Wednesday. There were no immediate accounts of injuries, but communications were down in many areas.11 km (6 miles) ESE of Nicoya, Costa Rica 30 km (18 miles) ESE of Santa Cruz, Costa Rica 44 km (27 miles) SW of Canas, Costa Rica. Location Uncertainty, horizontal +/- 13.6 km (8.5 miles); depth +/- 6.2 km (3.9 miles)Big quake on Pacific coast of Costa Rica. By Kevin Roderick | September 5, 2012 9:49 AM. The preliminary 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck at 8:42 this morning near the town of Liberia and was widely felt across Central America. There were
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