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1575 San Salvador earthquake yes 23 May 1575 Between San Marcos and Santo Tomás 13.586 -89.217 type:event_globe:earth_region:SV it Central America Telluric San Salvador Unknown 3 killed
On 23 May 1575, a telluric earthquake struck the city of San Salvador in the Spanish colony of New Spain. The earthquake destroyed the city. The earthquake was the second earthquake recorded with its epicenter in modern-day El Salvador, after the 1524 San Salvador earthquake.http://www.snet.gob.sv/ver/sismologia/registro/estadisticas/ Cronología de Sismos Destructivos en El Salvador Chronology of Destructive Earthquakes in El Salvador es 10 February 2024 Government of El Salvador
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Earthquake
On 23 May 1575, the day after the Christian holiday of Pentecost, an telluric earthquake struck the city of San Salvador.https://www.elsalvador.com/noticias/terremoto/cronologia.htm El Salvador: Cronología de una Tierra Danzarina El Salvador: Chronology of a Dancing Land es 10 February 2024 El Diario de Hoy Carlos Cañas Dinarte https://web.archive.org/web/20080701151914/https://www.elsalvador.com/noticias/terremoto/cronologia.htm 1 July 2008 dead The epicenter of the earthquake was somewhere between San Marcos and Santo Tomás, two municipalities located just south of San Salvador.
The intensity of the earthquake is unknown, but it destroyed the city of San Salvador; almost all of the city's buildings were destroyed,https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_2KmxKhStcQkC/page/341/mode/2up Nociones de Historia del Salvador: Precedidas de un Resumen de Historia Universal: por Comisión del Supremo Gobierno para Uno de los Establecimientos de Enseñanza de la República Notions of History of El Salvador: Preceded by a Summary of Universal History: by Commission of the Supreme Government for One of the Educational Establishments of the Republic es 1885 Rafael Reyes Impr. F. Sagrini San Salvador, El Salvador 342–343 38626247 including its oldest church. On 18 November 1576, Spanish king Philip II issued a royal decree in Madrid providing aid to the city. The earthquake killed three people.http://www.disaster-info.net/lideres/spanish/costarica/assets/francia.pdf El Impacto de los Terremotos en los Salvadoreños The Impact of the Earthquakes of the Salvadorans es 10 February 2024 Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance San Salvador, El Salvador Miguel Oswaldo Francia 1
See also
List of earthquakes in El Salvador
Further reading
https://historico.elsalvador.com/historico/207009/13-terremotos-que-han-azotado-a-el-salvador.html 13 Terremotos que han Azotado a El Salvador 13 Earthquakes that Whipped El Salvador es 24 November 2016 10 February 2024 El Diario de Hoy Ricardo Guevara
References
El Salvador Geophysics Spain
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