What the records say
- When
- 27 Aug 2010
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.7
- Where
- Iran
- Coordinates
- 35.49° N, 54.47° E
- Deaths
- 3
- Injuries
- 200
- Houses destroyed
- 700
- Depth km
- 7
2010 Damghan earthquake
Earthquake in Iran
The 2010 Damghan earthquake occurred in northern Iran at 11:53:49 local time on August 27 with a moment magnitude of 5.8 and maximum Mercalli intensity of VII. This strike-slip event damaged and destroyed a number of small villages in a sparsely populated region near the Alborz mountain range. It left four people dead, 40 injured, and about 800 without homes.
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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 “The 5.8 Damghan earthquake shook northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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