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SAN JOSE (COSTA RICA), NOV. 21. A powerful early morning earthquake shook Presidents and Prime Ministers from their beds on Saturday while damaging houses and frightening several people into heart attacks. The Red Cross said eight persons died, most by heart attack. None of the participants in the 21-nation Ibero-American Summit was hurt. The quake cracked major highways, toppled water towers and knocked the pillars from under a house, causing it to collapse atop a car parked underneath. The National Emergency Commission said 500 homes were damaged. Power lines were downed in some areas. The U.S. National Earthquake Information Center said the 2:07 a.m. (local time) quake had a magnitude of 6.2 on the Richter scale and was centred 48 km south-southwest of San Jose. ``We jumped from the bed like two cats,'' said Panama's first lady, Vivian de Torrijos. ``We're going to be able to remember the summit with something like that.'' Costa Rica's seismological observatory recorded more than 100 aftershocks of up to magnitude 4.6. AP
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