What the records say
- When
- 12 Oct 1992
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.3
- Where
- Egypt
- Coordinates
- 29.78° N, 31.14° E
- Deaths
- 545
- Injuries
- 6512
- Damage musd
- 1200
- Houses destroyed
- 9350
- Depth km
- 22
3 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 5.8 Cairo earthquake affects the city with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 545 dead and 6,512 injured”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En El Cairo un terremoto de 5,9 deja un saldo de 561 fallecidos, más de 12000 heridos y más de 30 000 familias sin hogar”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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