September 5, 2012
Updated Sep 5, 2012 at 9:22 AM PDT
A major earthquake hit northwestern Costa Rica on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.
The quake -- initially given a magnitude of 7.9 but then revised to 7.6 -- struck at 7:42 a.m. PT at a depth of about 25 miles and about seven miles southeast of Nicoya, a town of some 15,000 people on a coastal area on the Pacific about 90 miles from the capital San Jose.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued tsunami warnings for Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua, after initially issuing warnings for a much larger area.
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