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The 1956 Nicaragua earthquake occurred on October 24 at 14:42 UTC. [1] The epicenter was located west of Masachapa, Managua Department, Nicaragua. [2] It was an earthquake of magnitude M s 7.3, [3] or M w 7.2. [1]
San Cristóbal is Spanish for Saint Christopher, reckoned in Catholicism as the patron saint of sailors.. The English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley named it Dassigney's Island in 1684, [2] later shortened to Dassigney or Dassigny Island, [3] in honor of Philip Dassigny, the member of Bartholomew Sharp's crew who translated the Spanish atlas [4] that saved the captain from being hanged for piracy.
San Cristóbal Airport (IATA: SCY, ICAO: SEST) is an airport on the island of San Cristóbal, in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador. The airport is on the southwestern end of the island, with rising terrain to the northeast.
Options for air travel to the Galápagos are limited to two islands: San Cristobal (San Cristóbal Airport) and Baltra (Seymour Airport). [72] Private aircraft must use Baltra as it is the airport equipped with overnight plane accommodations. Seymour Airport on Baltra was recently renovated (2012–2013) to accommodate larger planes.
San Cristóbal is a city in the southern region of Dominican Republic. [4] It is the municipal ( municipio ) capital of the San Cristóbal province . The municipality is located in a valley at the foothills of the mountains belonging to the Cordillera Central , between the Nigua and Nizao rivers.
San Cristóbal is the youngest volcano in its complex. It is a nearly symmetrical stratovolcano, rising in a distinctive cone shape. The SW slope is the longest, and the crater rim on that side rises 140 m above the NE end due to prevailing trade winds that distribute tephra to the SW. [1] The crater is 500 × 600 m in size.
Before the flow of the Usabón River, the area where the San Cristóbal Canyon is located was the location of a former fault line during the Late Cretaceous period. This fault line might have contributed to the inward flow of previous rivers by creating a depression next to a rise of the superficial terrestrial crust along the region which began the process of carving the gorge approximately ...
Chelonoidis niger chathamensis, commonly known as the Chatham Island giant tortoise or the San Cristóbal giant tortoise, is a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise endemic to San Cristóbal Island in the Galápagos.