May 9, 2018

Watchers.news | May 9, 2018 | ~ Earthquake swarm hits El Salvador, Destroys 11 homes and damaging 200 ~ | Blogger: In Other News: 5 Shallow Earthquakes Felt in California Over 18-Hour Span, Including Pair of 4.5 Temblors .. Deadly floods and landslides hit Haiti, Dominican Republic and Jamaica .. |



A swarm of earthquakes hit southern El Salvador on Sunday, May 6, 2018, damaging nearly 200 homes and producing several small landslides. There are no reports of deaths or serious injuries.

The first quake measured M4.5 on the Richter scale. It hit at 04:04 UTC and was followed by 9 more quakes with magnitudes ranging from 4.3 to 5.6 and depths between 4.4 and 10 km (2.7 to 6.2 miles). The sequence had three M5+ quakes and ended with M5.6 at 19:02 UTC, at the time considered as the mainshock.