123 km SW of San Salvador, El Salvador / pop: 526,000 / local time: 04:41:25.5 2017-05-12
90 km SW of Sonsonate, El Salvador / pop: 59,500 / local time: 04:41:25.5 2017-05-12
73 km S of Acajutla, El Salvador / pop: 22,800 / local time: 04:41:25.5 2017-05-12
For more information on computation, see the article Bossu et al., 2016:
Thumbnail Based Questionnaires for the Rapid and Efficient Collection of Macroseismic Data from Global Earthquakes, Rémy Bossu, Matthieu Landès, Fréderic Roussel, Robert Steed, Gilles Mazet-Roux, Stacey S. Martin, and Susan Hough. Seismological Research Letter. Oct 2016. doi: 10.1785/0220160120;
Furthermore, to avoid the association with wrong events, we filter testimonies in distance and in intensity depending on the magnitude of the seismic event.
References for tectonic plate boundaries:
Coffin, M.F., Gahagan, L.M., and Lawver, L.A., 1998, Present-day Plate Boundary Digital Data Compilation. University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Technical Report No. 174, pp. 5.
Maps view: Seismicity from the previous 7 days in the area .
Regional instrumental seismicity
This seismicity maps have been generated by concatenating the ISC catalogue (since 1964), the EMSC Euro-Med Bulletin catalogue and the EMSC Real Time catalogue. Therefore, they show the seismicity from 1964 until the earthquake occurrence.
Regional deadly earthquakes from 1500 to origin time
Date
Long.
Lat.
Mag.
Death
Location
1586-12-23
-91.0
14.5
?
many
GUATEMALA
1773-06-03
-91.2
14.6
?
20000
GUATEMALA
1773-06-10
-90.4
14.3
?
100
GUATEMALA
1773-07-29
-91.2
14.6
?
100
GUATEMALA
1854-04-16
-89.2
13.8
6.6
1000
EL SALVADOR
1873-03-04
-88.7
13.7
6.4
800
EL SALVADOR
1873-04-11
-89.0
13.6
?
300
EL SALVADOR
1874-09-03
-90.7
14.5
?
116
GUATEMALA
1878-10-02
-88.4
13.5
?
many
EL SALVADOR
1902-02-26
-89.0
13.0
?
185
EL SALVADOR
1902-04-19
-91.5
14.9
7.5
2000
GUATEMALA
1913-03-08
-90.3
14.3
6.4
60
GUATEMALA
1917-06-08
-89.3
13.8
6.4
many
EL SALVADOR
1917-12-26
-90.7
14.6
5.6
100
GUATEMALA
1917-12-29
-90.6
14.6
5.2
100
GUATEMALA
1918-01-03
-90.6
14.5
5.8
100
GUATEMALA
1918-01-04
-90.6
14.6
6.0
100
GUATEMALA
1918-01-25
-90.5
14.6
6.2
many
GUATEMALA
1919-04-28
-89.2
13.7
5.9
72
EL SALVADOR
1936-12-20
-88.9
13.7
6.1
400
EL SALVADOR
1951-05-06
-88.4
13.5
6.5
1100
EL SALVADOR
1951-08-03
-87.5
13.0
6.0
many
HONDURAS
1965-05-03
-89.3
13.5
6.3
125
EL SALVADOR
1976-02-04
-89.1
15.3
7.5
23000
GUATEMALA
1982-06-19
-89.3
13.3
7.0
43
EL SALVADOR
1986-10-10
-89.1
13.8
5.4
1500
EL SALVADOR
1991-09-18
-91.0
14.7
6.1
25
GUATEMALA
2001-01-13
-88.7
13.1
7.7
852
OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
2001-02-13
-89.0
13.6
6.5
315
EL SALVADOR
2001-02-17
-89.1
13.8
4.1
1
EL SALVADOR
2001-05-08
-88.8
13.5
5.7
1
EL SALVADOR
2003-01-21
-90.8
13.6
6.4
1
OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
2011-09-19
-90.2
14.3
5.4
1
GUATEMALA
2012-11-07
-91.8
14.1
7.3
48
OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
2013-09-07
-92.0
14.8
6.5
1
GUATEMALA
2014-10-14
-87.9
12.7
7.3
1
NEAR COAST OF NICARAGUA
2017-04-10
-89.2
13.7
4.8
1
EL SALVADOR
Source:
From 1500 to 1999: T. Utsu ; International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology; vol. A; 691-718
Testimonies, photos
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