Six hundred earthquakes afflict El Salvador

san salvador - El Salvador is plagued by a series of earthquakes. The Ministry of the Environment reports that around six hundred shocks have been observed since Saturday.

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.