At that point relief teams went into Las Colinas with bulldozers and mechanical shovels to clear out the rubble and retrieve the bodies of the dead. In his condolence message to El Salvador, ROC President Chen Shui-bian stated that the people of Taiwan, having suffered a terrible earthquake of their own in September 1999, were acutely aware of what people in El Salvador were going through.
對於薩爾瓦多的強烈地震，一如總統陳水扁所說，對於前年才歷經九二一大地震的台灣民眾，尤其「感同身受」。