Six hundred earthquakes afflict El Salvador

El Salvador is plagued by a series of earthquakes.

Especially the east of the Central American country is affected. There, more than 280 buildings have been damaged and more than 2,000 people have taken refuge in emergency shelters.

A small hundred shocks of this series of earthquakes had a force between 2.4 and 5.6. According to the ministry, the quakes are the result of shifts in the earth's crust.