A minor magnitude 1.9 earthquake struck 17 km north of Rivas on Thursday morning, per VolcanoDiscovery.com.
Earlier that day, a weak magnitude 2.9 quake hit the North Pacific Ocean 231 km west of Managua, also reported by VolcanoDiscovery.com.
Meanwhile, Moscow and Managua are deepening pharmaceutical partnerships at a congress in Nicaragua, as GXPNews.net reports.
UN experts allege Nicaragua’s leaders run a 'full dictatorship' and have committed crimes against humanity, according to the New York Post.