Earthquakes Shake El
Salvador, Guatemala
Two earthquakes shook on Wednesday the
border regions of El Salvador and Guatemala and Ecuador, but there
were no reports of casualties or material damage.
According to information reaching here from San Salvador, a
5.1-magnitude earthquake was strongly felt across its western
regions of Ahuachapan, Santa Ana and Sonsonate.
The quake struck at 11:24 a.m. local time (1724 GMT) with epicenter
in Sonsonate, the capital of Sonsonate province near the country's
border with its northern neighbor Guatemala, said the National
Service of Territorial Studies (SNTE). SNTE said its epicenter was
47 km in depth.
The Guatemalan National Institute of Seismology (INS) measured the
quake at a magnitude of 5.2 on the Richter scale. According to INS,
its epicenter was near the country's border with Salvador, at a
depth of 80 km under the Pacific Ocean.
The quake was felt in much of Guatemala's central, east and
southeast regions.
Meanwhile, the Ecuadorian Geophysics Institute said that an
earthquake of 4.1-magnitude shook the Guayas province in Ecuador's
southwest coast early Wednesday morning.
The earthquake was slightly felt by the inhabitants of Guayaquil,
the capital of Guayas.
Ecuador is seated on the so-called "Belt of Lava of the Pacific,"
which sees a lot of earthquakes as many active volcanoes located
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