Earthquake — Armenia: Leninakan, Spitak, Kirovakan

When

7 Dec 1988

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

6.8

Where

Armenia

Coordinates

40.99° N, 44.19° E

Deaths

25000

Damage musd

16200

Intensity mmi

10

Depth km

5

Devastating earthquake in Armenian SSR, USSR

An earthquake occurred in northern Armenia on 7 December, 1988, at 11:41 local time with a surface-wave magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating). The region is vulnerable to large and destructive earthquakes and is part of a larger active seismic belt that stretches from the Alps to the Himalayas.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In Soviet Armenia, the 6.8 Spitak earthquake kills nearly 25,000, injures 31,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Ermenistan Sovyet Sosyalist Cumhuriyeti'nde meydana gelen 6.8 büyüklüğündeki Spitak depremi yaklaşık 25 bin kişiyi öldürdü”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Erdbeben von Spitak in Armenien kommen rund 25.000 Menschen ums Leben”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un tremblement de terre en Arménie cause la mort de plus de et en laisse au moins abri”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Армянской ССР произошло Спитакское землетрясение силой 6,9 баллов по шкале Рихтера”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la República Socialista Soviética de Armenia ocurre el terremoto de Spitak, que destruye varias ciudades y causa más de 70 000 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “蘇聯亞美尼亞北部發生6.8級強烈地震，將近2萬5千人死亡、31000人受傷、40萬人無家可歸。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “アルメニアでマグニチュード6.8の地震発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page