1965 San Salvador earthquake

1965 earthquake in Central America 1965 San Salvador earthquake 1965-05-03 10:01:38 856602 iscgem856602 1965 05 03 04:01 CST El Salvador 5.9 w yhttps://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/iscgem856602/executive United States Geological Survey M 5.9 – 4 km ESE of Ilopango, El Salvador 2022-01-27 15.0 km mi on 13.683 N 89.070 W inline, title El Salvador VIII 125 dead, 500 injured The 1965 San Salvador earthquake occurred at 04:01 in the morning on May 3, 1965. It had a moment magnitude of 5.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). The shock caused severe damage to El Salvador's capital city, San Salvador. The town of Ilopango, Soyapango, and Delgado was also hard hit. The earthquake was the most destructive to affect the city prior to the 1986 earthquake.https://historico.elsalvador.com/historico/589968/imagenes-del-mortal-terremoto-de-1965-que-sacudio-toda-el-area-metropolitana-de-san-salvador.html Imágenes del mortal terremoto de 1965 que sacudió toda el área metropolitana de San Salvador elsalvador.com es 2019-05-03 2022-01-27 Tectonic setting El Salvador lies above the convergent boundary where oceanic crust of the Cocos plate is being subducted beneath the Caribbean plate at rate of about 72 mm per year along the Middle America Trench. This boundary is associated with earthquakes resulting from movement on the plate interface itself, such as the w 7.7 1992 Nicaragua earthquake, and from faulting within both the overriding Caribbean plate and the subducting Cocos plate, such as the 1982 El Salvador earthquake.El Salvador 2001 usp000a7m5 M 7.7 – offshore El Salvador April 4, 2020 cs1The El Salvador earthquakes of January and February 2001: Context, characteristics and implications for seismic risk http://www.elsalvadorproject.org.uk/Knowledge/El%20Salvador%20Earthquakes%20of%202001.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20111008210628/http://www.elsalvadorproject.org.uk/Knowledge/El%20Salvador%20Earthquakes%20of%202001.pdf dead 2011-10-08 Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 22 5 389–418 2002 Bommer J. J. Benito M. B. Ciudad-Real M. Lemoine A. López-Menjívar M. A. Madariaga R. Mankelow J. Méndez De Hasbun P. Murphy W. Nieto-Lovo M. Rodríguez-Pineda C. E. Rosa H. 10.1016/S0267-7261(02)00024-6 2002SDEE...22..389B Damage and casualties The earthquake left 125 people dead across the San Salvador metropolitan area. A total of 53 million colones in damages was inflicted. Some damage was so serious that the demolition of the Central Penitentiary and the Ilopango Airport was necessary. Other public and private structures such as the Isidro Menéndez Judicial Center and the Women's Prison were partially damaged. Eventually, it was reported that some buildings only underwent remodeling works, such is the case of the Rubén Darío Building, whose walls were crossed by large cracks and fissures.March 2022 The shaking was quick and violent, and many people did not have time to leave their homes. Most buildings in the capital were built out of adobe, which lead to many deaths and hundreds of injuries.https://historico.elsalvador.com/historico/589506/se-cumplen-54-anos-del-terremoto-que-destruyo-gran-parte-de-san-salvador.html Se cumplen 54 años del terremoto que destruyó gran parte de San Salvador elsavador.com es 2019-05-03 2022-01-27 See also El Salvador Earth sciences 1986 San Salvador earthquake List of earthquakes in 1965 List of earthquakes in El Salvador References Category:1965 earthquakes 1965 Category:1965 in El Salvador