What the records say
- When
- 4 Jun 1679
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.9
- Where
- Turkey
- Coordinates
- 40.10° N, 44.70° E
- Deaths
- 7600
- Depth km
- 15
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1679 Armenia earthquake
Earthquake in West Asia
The 1679 Armenia earthquake took place on June 4 in the Yerevan region of Armenia, then part of the Safavid Iran.
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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 “A 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Armenia strikes near Yerevan, at the time part of the Persian Empire”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “薩法維王朝葉里溫省 (薩法維王朝)發生芮氏規模6.4的地震，造成葉里溫地區無數建築物倒塌、損毀。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page