Earthquake shakes Panama's border with Costa Rica

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

* Great Earthquakes In Diverse Places

Earthquake shakes Panama's border with Costa Rica*

2009-05-09

PANAMA CITY, May 8 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the
Richter scale shook the Panamanian province of Chiriqui, which borders
Costa Rica, on Friday, but no damages or victims were reported so far.

The earthquake occurred at 03:33 a.m. local time (0833 GMT) and it
was also felt in the Panamanian provinces of Veraguas and Bocasdel Toro
and in Costa Rica, according to reports from the Institute of
Geo-Science from the University of Panama.