1575 San Salvador earthquake

1575 San Salvador earthquake

Local date	23 May 1575
Epicenter	Between San Marcos and Santo Tomás
Type	Telluric
Areas affected	San Salvador
Max. intensity	Unknown
Casualties	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.[1]

Earthquake

On 23 May 1575, the day after the Christian holiday of Pentecost, an telluric earthquake struck the city of San Salvador.[2] The epicenter of the earthquake was somewhere between San Marcos and Santo Tomás, two municipalities located just south of San Salvador.[1]

The intensity of the earthquake is unknown,[1][2] but it destroyed the city of San Salvador; almost all of the city's buildings were destroyed,[3] 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.[2][4]

See also

• List of earthquakes in El Salvador

Further reading

• Guevara, Ricardo (24 November 2016). "13 Terremotos que han Azotado a El Salvador" [13 Earthquakes that Whipped El Salvador]. El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 February 2024.

References

1. "Cronología de Sismos Destructivos en El Salvador" [Chronology of Destructive Earthquakes in El Salvador]. Government of El Salvador (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 February 2024.
2. Cañas Dinarte, Carlos. "El Salvador: Cronología de una Tierra Danzarina" [El Salvador: Chronology of a Dancing Land]. El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 1 July 2008. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
3. Reyes, Rafael (1885). 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] (in Spanish). San Salvador, El Salvador: Impr. F. Sagrini. pp. 342–343. OCLC 38626247.
4. Francia, Miguel Oswaldo. "El Impacto de los Terremotos en los Salvadoreños" [The Impact of the Earthquakes of the Salvadorans] (PDF). Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance (in Spanish). San Salvador, El Salvador. p. 1. Retrieved 10 February 2024.

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