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Landslide - January 2001, El Salvador

Submitted by administrator on Sun, 18/02/2007 - 22:32. –
Start date: 13/01/2001
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El Salvador
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A landslide occurred at Las Colinas in the Santa Tecla district of greater San Salvador as a result of the Richter magnitude 7.6 earthquake on 13 January 20011.

Approximately 200,000 m3 of soil was displaced in a shallow slide from the El Balsamo Mountain that buried many buildings and took 585 lives2,3.

1 Lomnitz, C & Elizararras, S.R. 2001. El Salvador 2001: Earthquake disaster and disaster preparedness in a tropical volcanic environment. Seismological Research Letters.

2 Evans, S.G & Bent, A.L. 2004. The Las Colinas landslide, Santa Tecla: A highly destructive flowslide triggered by the January 13, 2001, El Salvador earthquake. The Geological Society of America Special Paper 375, pp 25-38

3 Konagai, K, Johansson, J, Mayorca, P, Yamamoto, T, Miyajima, M, Uzuoka, R, Pulido, N.E, Duran, F,D, Sassa, K & Fukuoka, H. 2002. Las Colinas landslide caused by the January 13, 2001 off the coast of El Salvador earthquake. Journal of Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering. Vol. 2, pp 1-15


Event overview table


No. Deaths 585
No. Injured
No. Affected
Houses destroyed
Houses damaged
Other damage
Economic cost


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