SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador—A large earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Guatemala and El Salvador Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The magnitude 6.0 tremor was recorded at 4:14 a.m. at a shallow depth of 6 miles. Its epicenter was 50 miles southwest of Acajutla, El Salvador and 66 miles south-southeast of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala.