Child found following earthquake

A child is one of the latest survivors to be found by rescuers following El Salvador's earthquake.

A young man was also saved by using his mobile phone call to alert authorities to his location.

The Government of El Salvador reports more than 400 people killed, some 800 injured and over 1,300 still missing, many of them in an area of San Salvador which has experienced a major landslide.

Authorities have buried many of the victims in mass graves, saying a landslide that wiped out entire families had made it impossible to know the identities of many who died.

The mayor of a hard-hit community says as the ground firms and time passes the chances of finding more people alive under the mountain of dirt is becoming more remote.

"We always have hope that someone can be found alive, but we have to acknowledge that there is less possibility of finding life," Mayor Oscar Ortiz of Santa Tecla said.

Distraught relatives have lined up at an improvised morgue in a bloodstained Santa Tecla alley to identify some of those mangled and entombed in the 7.6-magnitude quake.

But the need to dispose of the mounting number of corpses cheated some of the chance for closure. One woman looking for a pair of missing cousins showed up at the morgue in the half-buried Las Colinas neighbourhood only to find out that two children who matched their description had already been sent to a mass burial.

President Francisco Flores has asked Colombia to send 3,000 coffins.

The quake off of El Salvador's coast was felt from northern Panama to central Mexico - a distance of more than 1,100 miles.