Editing San Salvador (section)

==Disasters==
{{See also|1986 San Salvador earthquake}}
[[File:HotelSanSalvador.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[Gran Hotel (San Salvador)|Gran Hotel]]]]
The city has suffered from many severe earthquakes, the most disastrous of which occurred in 1854. The San Salvador volcano erupted again in 1917,<ref>{{cite web|title=San Salvador|url=http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1403-05=|work=Global Volcanism Program|publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref> resulting in three major earthquakes that damaged the city so extensively the government was forced to temporarily move the capital to the city of Santa Tecla (known at the time as ''Nueva San Salvador''). The 1986 San Salvador earthquake struck on 10 October 1986, causing considerable damage to the city and surrounding areas.
Between 1,000 and 1,500 people are believed to have been killed, and over 10,000 people were injured. 200,000 people were left homeless after the earthquake and a week of minor [[aftershock]]s.<ref name="Harlow">{{cite journal |url=http://bssa.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/83/4/1143|title=The San Salvador earthquake of 10 October 1986 and its historical context |author=Harlow, David H. (e.a.)|journal=Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America |date=August 1993 |volume=83 |issue=4 |pages=1143–1154 |doi=10.1785/BSSA0830041143 |bibcode=1993BuSSA..83.1143H |s2cid=130882786 |access-date=28 May 2009 }}</ref><ref name="USGS">{{cite web|url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqarchives/significant/sig_1986.php|title=Significant earthquakes in 1986|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227103514/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqarchives/significant/sig_1986.php|archive-date=27 February 2009|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

[[File:ElSalvadorslide.jpg|left|upright|thumb|landslide caused by the 2001 earthquake]]
The 2001 El Salvador earthquakes struck El Salvador on [[January 2001 El Salvador earthquake|13 January]] and [[February 2001 El Salvador earthquake|13 February]], 2001, resulting in considerable damage to the city, especially in Las Colinas suburb, where a landslide destroyed homes and killed many people.

During the 1980s, when political conflicts in El Salvador exploded into [[Salvadoran civil war]], many people fled to the capital, since most of the fighting occurred elsewhere (San Salvador itself was not directly affected by the war until the final offensive of 1989).

Hurricanes, tsunamis, and landslides also pose a threat. In November 2009, [[Hurricane Ida (2009)|Hurricane Ida]] hit the departments of San Salvador, San Vicente and [[Cuscatlán Department|Cuscatlán]]. In San Vicente, the municipalities of Verapaz and Guadalupe were totally destroyed by rainfall accompanying the hurricane, and the resultant landslide. The Army and the Red Cross were able to rescue most of the victims, but many thousands of people were left homeless. The government opened public schools to be used as temporary shelters for three months. The Hurricane destroyed some bridges, and some towns lost communications. The people of El Salvador raised money for the homeless and international aid came from countries such as the United States, Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and the European Union.

===Tropical Storm Agatha===
{{see also|Tropical Storm Agatha (2010)}}
Tropical storm Agatha hit the Central American coast on Thursday, 27 May 2010. About {{convert|3|ft|m}} of rainfall was recorded over a period of five days in the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, producing sinkholes, flash floods, and mudslides. Districts particularly hard hit included downtown, El Picacho, and Montebello.

===Tropical Storm Amanda===
{{see also|Tropical Storm Amanda (2020)}}
Tropical storm Amanda caused torrential rainfall across El Salvador, which was heavily impacted by the storm. In El Salvador, torrential rainfall caused significant damage along coastal cities in the country as rivers overflowed and swept away buildings. In the capital, San Salvador, 50 houses were destroyed and 23 vehicles fell into a sinkhole rivers overflowed and swept away buildings, damaging 900 homes and displacing over 1,200 people. Movement restrictions in place for the ongoing [[COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador]] were temporarily lifted to allow people to purchase medicines, while hardware stores were allowed to open with limited capacity so people could purchase equipment for repairs. El Salvador President [[Nayib Bukele]] declared a 15-day national state of emergency due to the storm. Amanda was considered the worst weather disaster to effect El Salvador in 22 years since [[Hurricane Mitch]], in which Amanda caused rainfall accumulations of at least {{convert|600|mm|in|abbr=on}} in many parts of the country and Mitch only caused at least {{convert|400|mm|in|abbr=on}} in other areas in a longer period of time.