Squirt Quakes

"Little Hells" spell disaster to the natives of El Salvador, the pocket Republic on that neck of land joining North and South America. "Little Hells'' are geysers of boiling water that hiss and squirt in the bowels of the earth until something gives way. It was El Salvador's "Little Hells" that last week brought the town of San Vicente toppling down, killing 250, injuring 800.

First sign that all the "Little Hells" were let loose was the presence of boiling water in the town drains. The nearby volcano was entirely quiet and remained so, but hour by hour the "Little Hells" increasingly erupted, finally produced what was in fact a squirt quake but made headlines throughout the world as an earthquake, "the worst earthquake there has ever been in El Salvador."

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