What the records say
- When
- 28 May 2004
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.3
- Where
- Iran
- Coordinates
- 36.29° N, 51.61° E
- Deaths
- 35
- Injuries
- 400
- Damage musd
- 165
- Houses destroyed
- 3880
- Intensity mmi
- 8
- Depth km
- 17
2004 Baladeh earthquake
Earthquake in Iran
On 28 May 2004, at 17:08:44 IRDT, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 on the moment magnitude scale (Mw) struck northern Iran. It resulted in the destruction of thousands of homes and caused damage, power outages and landslides in eight Iranian provinces, with the most severe damage occurring in Mazandaran and Qazvin provinces.
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2 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 “A 6.1-magnitude earthquake strikes on Iran's Caspian Sea coast”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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