The earthquake also levelled most of the city's public buildings, leaving only the outer walls intact.

It also has some interesting photos taken after an earthquake levelled the town in 1931.

An earthquake finally leveled it, and for centuries the once-great city was forgotten.

The earthquake leveled it as if a malign giant had been stomping the ground.

However, an earthquake in 1969 levelled the church.

The 1906 earthquake & fire leveled the original store with the rest of the downtown area.

Parishioners rebuilt it in 1669, before the earthquake of 1880 leveled it again to the ground.

On December 23, 1972, a powerful earthquake leveled the capital city, Managua.

The cab lights had shown that the earthquake had leveled several buildings on the street.

An earthquake leveled the city in 1812.