What the records say
- When
- 10 Oct 1980
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.1
- Where
- Algeria
- Coordinates
- 36.20° N, 1.37° E
- Deaths
- 5000
- Injuries
- 9000
- Damage musd
- 5200
- Houses destroyed
- 250000
- Intensity mmi
- 10
- Depth km
- 10
4 sources record it
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The 7.1 El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 2,633–5,000 and injuring 8,369–9,000”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “séisme d'El Asnam”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en El Asnam (Argelia), un terremoto de 7,1 deja cerca de 5000 fallecidos y 9000 heridos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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