What the records say
- When
- 10 Oct 1986
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.4
- Where
- El Salvador
- Coordinates
- 13.83° N, 89.12° W
- Deaths
- 1100
- Injuries
- 20000
- Damage musd
- 1500
- Depth km
- 7
3 sources record it
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The 5.7 San Salvador earthquake shook San Salvador, El Salvador with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en San Salvador, ciudad capital de El Salvador, un terremoto de 5,7 deja un saldo de 1500 muertos y 20000 heridos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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