December 1884 Earthquake: San Vicente, El Salvador

Date

December 1884

Place

San Vicente, El Salvador

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

13.400° N, 88.500° W

Country

El Salvador

Region

Central America

Damage

Moderate (about $1 to $5 million)

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. #1196 Schultz, R. (1963). Estudio sobre la sismicidad en la Region Centro-Americana. Boletin Bibliografico de Geofisica y Oceanografia Americanas, vol. III, Instituto Panamericano de Geographia e Historia, Mexico, D.F. Mexico, p. 135-144.

• October 10, 1986, San Salvador, El SalvadorM5.4 · 1,100 deaths · $1.5 billion · 82 km
• May 6, 1951, Jucuapa, El SalvadorM6.5 · 1,100 deaths · $23 million · 88 km
• April 14, 1854, San Salvador, El Salvador1,000 deaths · 88 km
• January 13, 2001, El Salvador, GuatemalaM7.7 · 844 deaths · $753 million · 108,226 houses destroyed · 43 km
• March 4, 1873, Santa Tomas, San Vicente, El Salvador800 deaths · 73 km
• December 19, 1936, San Vicente, El Salvador400 deaths · 31 km
• February 13, 2001, San Juan Tepezontes-San Vicente-Cojutep, El SalvadorM6.6 · 315 deaths · $348.5 million · 41,302 houses destroyed · 56 km
• April 11, 1873, Salvador,san Vicente, El Salvador300 deaths · 58 km
• February 26, 1902, El Salvador-GuatemalaM7 · 185 deaths · 109 km
• May 3, 1965, San Marcos, El SalvadorM6 · 125 deaths · $35 million · 87 km
• April 20, 1765, Chiquimula, El Salvador, Guatemala50 deaths · 83 km
• June 19, 1982, San Salvador, Guatemala, El SalvadorM7.3 · 43 deaths · $5 million · 96 km
• April 21, 1594, San Salvador, El Salvador13 deaths · 83 km
• September 7, 1915, El SalvadorM7.7 · 7 deaths · 98 km
• May 21, 1932, El Salvador, Honduras, NicaraguaM7.1 · 5 deaths · 73 km

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