Abstract
El Salvador is located in the western part of the Caribbean Plate which contains several tectonic regions (see Fig. 15.1): a very narrow chain of active volcanoes (Carr et al. 1982) along the Pacific coast of Central America; the Cocos Plate which subducts under the Caribbean Plate southwest of El Salvador forming the Middle America Trench (White and Cifuentes 1988); the North American-Caribbean Plate boundary in the northwest which crosses Guatemala (it contains the Chixoy-Polochic and Motagua faults); and a series of grabens in the northeast that form the Honduras Depression (Kiremidjian et al. 1979).
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Alfaro, C.S. (1994). El Salvador. In: Paz, M. (eds) International Handbook of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2069-6_15
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