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Subscribe to RSSUpdated at 2:56 a.m. ET: A strong magnitude-7.4 earthquake struck off the coast of El Salvador late Sunday, temporarily sparking a tsunami warning.
The earthquake was followed an hour later by a second, magnitude-5.4 temblor, authorities said.
However, the tsunami warning covering Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama and Mexico was later canceled.
There were no immediate reports of damages or injuries.
David Walsh, an oceanographer with the Pacific Tsunami Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, said a minor, 7.8-inch swell was registered off Acajutla, El Salvador.
The earthquake struck 74 miles south of Usulutan, El Salvador, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on its website.
The temblor took place at a depth of 32.9 miles at 10:37 p.m. Sunday.
On Sunday, dozens of small to moderate earthquakes struck southeastern California, knocking trailer homes off their foundations and shattering windows in a small farming town east of San Diego. The largest quake registered at a magnitude 5.5 and was centered about three miles (five kilometers) northwest of the town of Brawley, according to the USGS. Another quake about an hour and a half earlier registered at magnitude 5.3. No injuries were reported.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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The joint is jumping.There has been an earthquake swarm in the desert of So California too and we have been told to expect more aftershocks. There have been at least 210 so far with 2 moderate quakes at 5.3 and 5.5 near Brawley, about 115 miles from San Diego. As for this one in El Salvadore, I'd be surprised if there wasn't damage since it was only 78 miles off shore.
El Salvador; all 8000 mi of it.
its the end of the world as we know it. oh wait those are the lyrics to R E M song with the same name.
just another day in paradise. getting rattled. lol
now watch all the doomsday preachers come out of the wood work and tell us I told you so.
Looks like your prediction is wrong buddy. Guess you'll have to get some 'Pledge' and go polish your own woodwork.
Mark 13:8
King James Version (KJV)
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows
And wetbacks will take over your lands and force your children to take illegal drugs!
shake and bake was the punch line to the joke about the san francisco earthquake of 1906.
what do you get when you cross earthquakes with fire. answer? Shake & Bake. the earth rattled and the
sky burned.
I've never seen a swarm like Southern CA and I lived in California for over 30 years. Deep underground magma movement? Some kind of weird fault system or several fault systems going off in tandem?
The San Andreas, trying to shake off baja and turn it into an island.
For more information, consult the movie "2012".
Start building your Ark now, you dont have much time. If nothing happens, you still have a funky planter for the backyard.
"Yet once more I Shake not the Earth only, but also the Heavens...signifying the removing of those things that are shaken as of things that are made, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain." Hebrews 12:26-27 Glory Be to GOD and Those Things Which Cannot Be Shaken!
Don't forget to set your watches- the Mayan calender ends 12/21/12
if we are lucky there will be a seperation line running along the Arizona/Nevada/Oregon borders and a substancial shift to the left....oooppps me bad... can't get much further left than they already are...lol...btw I grew up in cali and it hasn't changed in 50 yrs....lol