Thursday, November 24, 2016

El Salvador issues tsunami alert after 7.0 earthquake (local time: 12:43, Depth 10 km)

Authorities in El Salvador have issued a tsunami alert after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook the country and neighbouring Nicaragua.


The Pacific Ocean tremor occurred on Thursday around 120km off the coast of El Salvador, at a depth of 33km, according to the US Geological Survey.

Earlier reports had had the quake's magnitute at 7.2.

There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

In El Salvador, the eartquake could be felt in the regions of Chalatenango, San Salvador, Cabanas and San Miguel.

El Salvador sits along the major seismic zone known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, a series of faults marked by 450 active volcanoes over 40,000km.

Over the last two weeks, earthquakes with magnitudes over 7.0 have hit Japan and New Zealand, both of which are also near the Ring of Fire.

Shaking was also felt in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, and as far as the Costa Rican capital San Jose.

The earthquake struck one hour after a powerful hurricane packing winds of 175 kilometres per hour made landfall on Nicaragua's other coast.

The heavy rains hurricane Otto was offloading were likely to cause dangerous flooding and mud slides, according to the US National Hurricane Center.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega declared a state of emergency due to the quake and the storm.
 aljazeera.com
24/11/16
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  • Magnitude Mw 7.0

Region OFF COAST OF CENTRAL AMERICA
Date time 2016-11-24 18:43:48.1 UTC
Location 11.96 N ; 88.89 W

  • Depth 10 km

Distances
194 km S of San Salvador, El Salvador / pop: 526,000 / local time: 12:43:48.1 2016-11-24
161 km S of Usulután, El Salvador / pop: 52,000 / local time: 12:43:48.1 2016-11-24
151 km S of Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador / pop: 19,100 / local time: 12:43:48.1 2016-11-24
 emsc-csem.org

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