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COLLECTION
IN FAVOUR OF THE VICTIMS
The first figures coming from El Salvador put the number of confirmed deaths at 237, with approximately 1,500 wounded and considerable damage to housing. The areas hardest hit were the departments of San Vicente, La Paz and Cuscatl�n in the center of the country, 35 km southeast of San Salvador. At San Vicente over 60% of the houses were damaged: the downtown area has been practically razed to the ground. Unofficial sources indicate that a school may have collapsed, burying the children who were inside. Schools had in fact just reopened a few days earlier: the country had been slowly and laboriously returning to normal after the January 13 earthquake.
Around 60 people were killed in the department of La Paz. In Santa Tecla, the area hardest hit by the last earthquake, a new landslide, fortunately not large in size, broke off the hill overlooking the city, provoking panic in the population. Damage was also reported in San Salvador, where a church collapsed.
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On February 13, exactly one month after the earthquake that devastated El Salvador, the country was hit by a new seismic shock. The earth shook at 8:27 a.m. local time (3:27 p.m. in Italy), with a strength of 6.6 on the Richter scale.
The situation is more serious in the central areas of the department, with up to 90% of the houses damaged.