Medium Earthquakes Shake El
Salvador, Guatemala
SAN SALVADOR - An earthquake measuring 5.8
on the Richter scale shook on Sunday the
Salvadorian coast and Guatemala, without
reports of victims or material damages,
according to the Salvadorian National
Service of Territorial Studies (SNET).
The quake was registered at 07:30 a.m. local
time (1330 GMT), with the epicenter at a
depth of 15 kilometers in Guatemala
territory near the Pacific Ocean, bordering
with Mexico, the SNTE said.
Meanwhile, an earthquake measuring 5.4 on
the Richter scale shook on Sunday Guatemala,
also without reports of victims or material
damages to the moment, the Guatemalan
National Institute of Seismology,
Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology (Insivumeh)
said.
The earthquake occurred at 07:34 a.m. local
time (1334 GMT), with the epicenter in
Retalhuyleu department in the southwest of
the country, the Insivumeh said in a
statement.
Earlier on Sunday morning, an earthquake
measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale shook
Guatemala at 07:30 a.m. local time (1330
GMT), with an epicenter depth of 57.9
kilometers, 50 kilometers southeast to
Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico, and 160
kilometers west to the Guatemala City, the
United States Geological Service (USGS)
said.
Meanwhile, an earthquake measuring 5.5 on
the Richter scale shook Mexico on Sunday,
the National Seismological Service (SSN) of
Mexico informed.
The quake occured at 08:30 a.m. local time
(1330 GMT), with the epicenter at a depth of
61 kilometers, 45 kilometers southwest to
the Hidalgo city, Chiapas, in the south of
Mexico, bordering with Guatemala. |
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