The geology of El Salvador is underlain by rocks dating to the Paleozoic. Prior to the Pennsylvanian, sediments deposited and were intensely deformed,...
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Notable earthquakes in the history of El Salvador include the following: El Salvador portal Geology of El Salvador National Earthquake Information Center...
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The San Salvador Volcano (also known as Quezaltepeque or El Boquerón) is a stratovolcano situated northwest to the city of San Salvador. The crater has...
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The January 2001 El Salvador earthquake struck El Salvador on January 13, 2001, at 17:33:34 UTC. The moment magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck with the epicenter...
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Cuscatlán Formation (category Geology of El Salvador)
The Cuscatlán Formation is a geologic formation in El Salvador. It preserves fossils dating back to the Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene (Blancan to Irvingtonian)...
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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...
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Chortis Block (category Geology of El Salvador)
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and the off-shore Nicaragua Rise) located in the northwest corner of the oceanic Caribbean Plate. The northern margin of the...
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/ -26.29167; -69.54167 El Salvador is a caldera in Chile. The mountains La Antena and Contreras form the southeastern margin of the caldera, while the...
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Coatepeque Caldera (category Biosphere reserves of El Salvador)
volcanic caldera in El Salvador in Central America. The caldera was formed during a series of rhyolitic explosive eruptions from a group of stratovolcanoes...
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damage to El Salvador's capital city of San Salvador and surrounding areas, including neighboring Honduras and Guatemala. The 1986 San Salvador earthquake...
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Central America under Mexican rule (redirect from Mexican annexation of El Salvador)
general consisted of the provinces of Chiapas, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua—the six southernmost provinces of the Mexican Empire...
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Izalco (volcano) (category Mountains of El Salvador)
stratovolcano on the side of the Santa Ana Volcano, which is located in western El Salvador. It is situated on the southern flank of the Santa Ana volcano...
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El Salvador mine (The Savior) is a combined open pit and underground copper mine located in Chile and owned by the state owned copper mining company Codelco...
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El Salvador. 26 November – El Monumento al Divino Salvador del Mundo was constructed in San Salvador. It remains one of the most iconic sites in El Salvor...
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San Salvador Island, previously Watling's Island, is an island and district of the Bahamas, famed for being the probable location of Christopher Columbus's...
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Tecapa (category Mountains of El Salvador)
Tecapa is a complex stratovolcano in central El Salvador. List of volcanoes in El Salvador List of stratovolcanoes "Tecapa". Global Volcanism Program...
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Santa Ana Volcano (category Stratovolcanoes of El Salvador)
department of El Salvador. At 2,381 metres (7,812 ft) above sea level, it is the highest volcano in the country. It is located immediately west of Coatepeque...
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The El Salvador Reconstruction and Development Project is a charitable volunteer project from Imperial College London's Department of Civil and Environmental...
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El Salvador earthquake occurred with a moment magnitude of 6.6 on 13 February at 14:22:05 UTC. The epicentre was 15 miles (30 km) E of San Salvador,...
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earthquake located off the coast of El Salvador measured 7.3 on the moment magnitude scale (Mw) and had a focal depth of 16.0 kilometres (10 mi). No deaths...
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observers in sessions of the United Nations General Assembly, and maintains offices at UN Headquarters. Four countries (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and...
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various areas of Salvadoran life such as employment, health, education, political participation, and family life. Although women in El Salvador enjoy equal...
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major geological structures; the Nicaraguan depression, El Salvador Fault Zone and Jalpatagua Fault. The El Salvador Fault Zone represents an area of geological...
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VIII (Severe). The shock caused severe damage to El Salvador's capital city, San Salvador. The town of Ilopango, Soyapango, and Delgado was also hard hit...
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Chingo (category Mountains of El Salvador)
and El Salvador. The highest point on the Guatemala/ El Salvador border is Volcán Chingo at 5,823 feet. It is also known to be the second highest of a group...
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Central America (redirect from Geology of Central America)
Central America is usually defined as consisting of seven countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Within...
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Chuquicamata El Salvador mine Mining in Chile Wikimedia Commons has media related to El Teniente. Lindgren, Waldemar; Bastin, Edson (1922). "The geology of the...
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Category:Government of El Salvador Category:Health in El Salvador Category:History of El Salvador Category:Law enforcement in El Salvador Category:Law of El Salvador Category:Military...
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Lake Ilopango (category Lakes of El Salvador)
11 km (72 km2 or 28 sq mi) volcanic caldera in central El Salvador, on the borders of the San Salvador, La Paz, and Cuscatlán departments. The caldera, which...
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Soyapango (redirect from Soyapango, San Salvador)
San Salvador department of El Salvador. Soyapango is the country's largest municipality with 284,700 residents. Soyapango is a satellite city of San Salvador...
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