After the earthquake, El Salvador suffers a tsunami

The Savior. A powerful earthquake shook the coast of El Salvador yesterday, causing feared residents to flee their homes at dawn. The authorities have not ruled out a small tsunami, but to date, no casualties or serious injuries have been reported.

Iván García, of the Salvadoran Red Cross, said that "in the monitoring done, there are only reports of small landslides on the roads, no casualties". The United States Geological Survey reported that the preliminary range of telluric motion was 6.6 degrees. The epicenter was about 28 km south-southeast of La Libertad, a suburb of Santa Techa, capital of the La Libertad region, 65 km deep.

"The monitoring of the whole country shows that there have been no serious or widespread effects," said the civil protection agency on Twitter. The Salvadoran Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has warned of a possible tsunami via his Twitter account and has asked people to move away from the Pacific Ocean in the next few hours .

The earthquake was felt most intensely in the city of Santa Tecla and in the west of the country's capital, with the focus being more on the coast of La Libertad, the minister told reporters. of Environment and Natural Resources, Lina Pohl. "As it is an earthquake with an epicenter in the sea, an increase in wave height is expected," warned the official.

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