Earthquake — Iran: Ahar, Haris, Varzagan

When

11 Aug 2012

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

6.5

Where

Iran

Coordinates

38.33° N, 46.83° E

Deaths

306

Injuries

3000

Damage musd

599

Depth km

11

Doublet earthquakes in northwest Iran

The 2012 East Azerbaijan earthquakes – also known as the Ahar earthquakes – occurred on 11 August 2012, at 16:53 Iran Standard Time, near the cities of Ahar and Varzaqan in Iran's East Azerbaijan province, approximately 60 kilometers from Tabriz. They comprised a doublet separated by eleven minutes, with magnitudes of 6.4 and 6.2 Mww.

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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 “Two earthquakes, the strongest a magnitude 6.4, strike near the northwestern Iranian cities of Tabriz and Ahar”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “по северо-западу Ирана прокатилась серия землетрясений магнитудой 6,3—6,4, в результате которой погибли 308 человек и 3037 — получили ранения”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Dos terremotos de 6,4 y 6,2 sacuden la provincia iraní de Azerbaiyán Occidental que dejan un saldo de 306 muertos y más de 3.000 heridos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page