{Tremor hits off the coast of El Salvador, and was also felt in Nicaragua, which is being lashed by a hurricane.}<\/p>\n
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake off the Pacific Coast of Central America has shaken the region, just as a hurricane barreled into the Caribbean coasts of Nicaragua and Costa Rica.<\/p>\n
There were no immediate reports of any damage from Thursday’s quake, which occurred around 120km off the coast of El Salvador at a depth of 33km, according to the US Geological Survey.<\/p>\n
Earlier reports had put the quake’s magnitute at 7.2.<\/p>\n
A tsunami alert issued by El Salvador was later lifted. <\/p>\n
In El Salvador, the eartquake could be felt in the regions of Chalatenango, San Salvador, Cabanas and San Miguel.<\/p>\n
El Salvador sits along the major seismic zone known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, a series of faults marked by 450 active volcanoes over 40,000km.<\/p>\n
Over the last two weeks, earthquakes with magnitudes over 7.0 have hit Japan and New Zealand, both of which are also near the Ring of Fire.<\/p>\n
Shaking was also felt in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, and as far as the Costa Rican capital San Jose.<\/p>\n
The earthquake struck one hour after a powerful hurricane packing winds of 175 kilometres per hour made landfall on Nicaragua’s other coast.<\/p>\n
The heavy rains hurricane Otto was offloading were likely to cause dangerous flooding and mud slides, according to the US National Hurricane Center.<\/p>\n
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega declared a state of emergency due to the quake and the storm.<\/p>\n
“It is certainly a difficult day today for countries in Central America,” Al Jazeera David Mercer, reporting from the neighbouring Guatemala, said, adding that the quake was also felt there. <\/p>\n
But Mercer said that countries on the path of the hurricane has been preparing for days for landfall, and authorities are hoping that the casualties will be limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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