1982 El Salvador earthquake

1982 El Salvador earthquake
Date 19 June 1982 (1982-06-19)
Magnitude Ms 7.2
Depth 82 km
Epicenter 13°19′N 89°20′W / 13.31°N 89.34°W / 13.31; -89.34
Casualties 8

The 1982 El Salvador earthquake occurred on 19 June 1982 at 00:21 local time (06:21 UTC). It was an Ms 7.2 earthquake, with epicenter being located in the Pacific Ocean about 60 km southeast of San Salvador, El Salvador. 8 people were reported dead, and 1630 houses were damaged. The earthquake triggered many landslides.[1] The intensity in San Salvador reached MM VII.[2][3] The most affected cities are San Salvador, Ahuachapán, Concepción de Ataco, Comasagua, San Miguel, San Pedro Nonualco, and San Juan Tepezontes.[4] This earthquake could be felt in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, with intensities MM V in Guatemala City, Guatemala, MM IV in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, MM V in Managua, Nicaragua, and MM III in San Jose, Costa Rica.[5][6] Near the Salvadorian coast, the Cocos Plate is subducting beneath the Caribbean Plate at the Middle America Trench. This earthquake was an intra-slab, normal-slip subduction earthquake in the subducting plate. The subduction zone and a local system of faults along the volcanic chain are two major sources of the earthquakes in El Salvador.[7][8][9] The mechanism of this earthquake had many similarities with the El Salvador earthquake of 13 January 2001.[10]

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.iitk.ac.in/nicee/wcee/article/13_2646.pdf
  2. ↑ http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jsnds/contents/jnds/23_2_1.pdf
  3. ↑ isosistas. Snet.gob.sv (10 October 1986). Retrieved on 25 October 2011.
  4. ↑ http://desastres.usac.edu.gt/documentos/pdf/spa/doc909/doc909-contenido.pdf
  5. ↑ Significant Earthquakes of the World. Earthquake.usgs.gov (5 January 2010). Retrieved on 25 October 2011.
  6. ↑ http://www.crid.or.cr/digitalizacion/pdf/spa/doc807/doc807-b.pdf
  7. ↑ http://redgeomatica.rediris.es/sismo/pdf/pub_001.pdf
  8. ↑ http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~raman/papers2/MartinezetalGeol.pdf
  9. ↑ http://www.earth.northwestern.edu/people/emile/PDF/EAO136.pdf
  10. ↑ http://www.elsalvadorproject.org.uk/Knowledge/El%20Salvador%20Earthquakes%20of%202001.pdf
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