Английская Википедия:1982 El Salvador earthquake
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The 1982 El Salvador earthquake occurred southeast of San Salvador on 19 June at 00:21 local time (06:21 UTC). This undersea earthquake struck offshore in the Pacific Ocean and had a surface wave magnitude of 7.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). Occurring adjacent to a subduction zone at the Middle America Trench, this normal-slip shock left at least 16 and as many as 43 people dead, and many injured, and also inflicted $5 million in damage.
Tectonic setting
Near the Salvadorian coast, the Cocos Plate is subducting beneath the Caribbean Plate at the Middle America Trench. This earthquake was an intra-slab, normal-slip subduction earthquake in the subducting plate. The subduction zone and a local system of faults along the volcanic chain are two major sources of the earthquakes in El Salvador.[1]
Earthquake
The mechanism of this earthquake had many similarities with the El Salvador earthquake of 13 January 2001.[2]
Intensity
The intensity in San Salvador reached VII (Very strong).[3] The most affected cities are San Salvador, Ahuachapán, Concepción de Ataco, Comasagua, San Miguel, San Pedro Nonualco, and San Juan Tepezontes.[4] This earthquake could be felt in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, with intensities V (Moderate) in Guatemala City, Guatemala, IV (Light) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, V in Managua, Nicaragua, and III (Weak) in San José, Costa Rica.[5][6]
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External links
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- ↑ isosistas. Snet.gob.sv (10 October 1986). Retrieved 25 October 2011.
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- ↑ Significant Earthquakes of the World Шаблон:Webarchive. Earthquake.usgs.gov (5 January 2010). Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
