Just short of noon on Saturday, January 13, most everyone in El Salvador was at home preparing for lunch when the earth below their feet suddenly began to shake violently. Just outside the capital of San Salvador, a hillside collapsed in the community of Las Colinas, burying more than 260 homes and 1,200 residents.
十三日近午，薩爾瓦多的多數居民正在家中準備午餐。一陣巨響，土石如同巨浪一般覆下，位於首都聖薩爾瓦多附近的柯林納斯社區遭到山崩掩埋，將近兩百六十多棟房屋，一千兩百多位薩國民眾在瞬間被深埋於土石裡面。