A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Central America late night yesterday, killing at least one person and prompting a brief tsunami warning.
Electricity was cut off in parts of El Salvador and beyond and walls crumbled, but there were no reports of widespread damage.
The quake hit in the Pacific Ocean 170 kilometers (105 miles) southeast of the capital San Salvador, at a depth of 70 kilometers (44 miles), the US Geological Survey said.
The rumbling of the earth was felt all along the Central American coast, from Guatemala in the north to Nicaragua and Costa Rica in the south and inland to Honduras.
In El Salvador, a man died when an electrical pylon fell on him in the city of San Miguel, its mayor Wilfredo Salgado told YSKL radio.
