December 19, 1936 Earthquake: San Vicente, El Salvador

Date

December 19, 1936

Place

San Vicente, El Salvador

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

13.200° N, 88.700° W

Country

El Salvador

Deaths

400

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.

• October 10, 1986, San Salvador, El SalvadorM5.4 · 1,100 deaths · $1.5 billion · 83 km
• May 6, 1951, Jucuapa, El SalvadorM6.5 · 1,100 deaths · $23 million · 100 km
• April 14, 1854, San Salvador, El Salvador1,000 deaths · 86 km
• January 13, 2001, El Salvador, GuatemalaM7.7 · 844 deaths · $753 million · 108,226 houses destroyed · 17 km
• March 4, 1873, Santa Tomas, San Vicente, El Salvador800 deaths · 68 km
• February 13, 2001, San Juan Tepezontes-San Vicente-Cojutep, El SalvadorM6.6 · 315 deaths · $348.5 million · 41,302 houses destroyed · 58 km
• April 11, 1873, Salvador,san Vicente, El Salvador300 deaths · 55 km
• February 26, 1902, El Salvador-GuatemalaM7 · 185 deaths · 93 km
• May 3, 1965, San Marcos, El SalvadorM6 · 125 deaths · $35 million · 73 km
• April 20, 1765, Chiquimula, El Salvador, Guatemala50 deaths · 78 km
• June 19, 1982, San Salvador, Guatemala, El SalvadorM7.3 · 43 deaths · $5 million · 76 km
• April 21, 1594, San Salvador, El Salvador13 deaths · 78 km
• September 7, 1915, El SalvadorM7.7 · 7 deaths · 108 km
• May 21, 1932, El Salvador, Honduras, NicaraguaM7.1 · 5 deaths · 91 km
• September 29, 1982, Honduras-Guatemala-El SalvadorM5.1 · 3 deaths · 150 km

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Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 3586.