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Residents appear copse toppled, rooftops damaged and anchorage breach by the convulse abreast the epicenter in the littoral arena of Guanacaste. Bodies rushed into the streets 150km abroad in the basic San Jose.

A Red Cross agent said a man and a woman died afterwards adversity affection attacks in the boondocks of Filadelfia, not far from Nicoya, which is almost 10km from the epicentre.

"Here in Nicoya, auspiciously we accept alone apparent actual accessory injuries, bodies with accessory cuts
- annihilation cogent accustomed the consequence of the storm," said the spokesman, Adolfo Saenz.

Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla said: "The best important affair is to abide calm, there is no above damage."

The US Geological Survey said the quake, which addled off the Pacific bank of Costa Rica at a abyss of about 40km, abstinent 7.9 on the Moment Consequence Scale.

A tsunami admonishing was issued for Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua, but after cancelled, the US Pacific Tsunami Admonishing Center said. Initially, the admonishing had continued from Mexico to Peru.

"We acquainted it actual strongly, and ran, abashed that the abode was action to appear down. Bodies are actual alarmed," a Nicoya citizen told a bounded radio station.

Still, Nicaragua's acclimate account administrator Javier Mejia told bounded media there had been letters of the sea affairs abroad from the bank in San del Sur, and that aerial after-effects could hit that littoral arena after in the day.

A USGS map showed the convulse centered abreast the Pacific coast, in arresting Guanacaste, a day-tripper breadth accepted for its cliffs, beaches and surfing.

The country is acclimated to seismic action but bodies in the breadth were abashed by the backbone of the quake.

"We were in the pool. And a beachcomber rose up in the pool," one afraid day-tripper said on television in Pinilla, abreast the quake's epicenter.

In San Jose, some barrio and schools were evacuated. Many areas of the basic additionally absent ability .

Small landslides were appear on the artery that links the basic to the Pacific coast, but none was ample abundant to block vehicles.

The convulse additionally was acquainted acerb in adjoining Nicaragua, Panama and El Salvador.