April 11, 1873 Earthquake: Salvador,san Vicente, El Salvador

Date

April 11, 1873

Place

Salvador,san Vicente, El Salvador

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

13.600° N, 89.000° W

Country

El Salvador

Region

Central America

Deaths

300

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

1. #1055 Milne, John (1911). Catalogue of Destructive Earthquakes [7 to 1899 A.D.], Report of the 81st Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Portsmouth, London, United Kingdom, p. 649-740.
2. #124 Grases, Jose (1990). Terremotos Destructores del Caribe, 1502-1990. UNESCO-RELACIS, Montevideo.
3. #11626 Osiecki, Patricia Sutch (1981). Estimated Intensities and Probable Tectonic Sources of Historic (pre-1898) Honduran Earthquakes. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 71, no. 3, p. 865-881.

• February 4, 1976, Chimaltenango, Guatemala CityM7.5 · 23,000 deaths · $2.1 billion · 255,000 houses destroyed · 192 km
• October 10, 1986, San Salvador, El SalvadorM5.4 · 1,100 deaths · $1.5 billion · 28 km
• May 6, 1951, Jucuapa, El SalvadorM6.5 · 1,100 deaths · $23 million · 146 km
• April 14, 1854, San Salvador, El Salvador1,000 deaths · 31 km
• January 13, 2001, El Salvador, GuatemalaM7.7 · 844 deaths · $753 million · 108,226 houses destroyed · 71 km
• March 4, 1873, Santa Tomas, San Vicente, El Salvador800 deaths · 15 km
• December 19, 1936, San Vicente, El Salvador400 deaths · 55 km
• February 13, 2001, San Juan Tepezontes-San Vicente-Cojutep, El SalvadorM6.6 · 315 deaths · $348.5 million · 41,302 houses destroyed · 10 km
• February 26, 1902, El Salvador-GuatemalaM7 · 185 deaths · 55 km
• May 3, 1965, San Marcos, El SalvadorM6 · 125 deaths · $35 million · 34 km
• April 20, 1765, Chiquimula, El Salvador, Guatemala50 deaths · 24 km
• June 19, 1982, San Salvador, Guatemala, El SalvadorM7.3 · 43 deaths · $5 million · 51 km
• April 21, 1594, San Salvador, El Salvador13 deaths · 24 km
• September 7, 1915, El SalvadorM7.7 · 7 deaths · 58 km
• May 21, 1932, El Salvador, Honduras, NicaraguaM7.1 · 5 deaths · 131 km

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