An Earthquake catalogue for El Salvador and neighbouring Central American Countries (1528-2009) and its implication in the Seismic Hazard assessment
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Abstract
Merging all available databases, a comprehensive and updated earthquake catalogue for El Salvador and surrounding areas has been compiled, containing a total of 2,584 events for the period 1528-2009, covering the geographic window delimited by the coordinates 11.0°-16.5° N and 85.5°-92.0° W, focal depths of 0.0 to 304 km, and the moment magnitudes in the interval 5.0 ≤ MW ≤ 8.1.
