Earthquake — Turkey: Van; Iran

When

23 Feb 2020

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

6.0

Where

Iran

Coordinates

38.48° N, 44.37° E

Deaths

10

Injuries

141

Houses destroyed

255

Intensity mmi

7

Depth km

10

Earthquakes that occurred on 23 February 2020 in Khoy, Iran

The first and most destructive of the 2020 Iran–Turkey earthquakes occurred on 23 February, near Khoy in north-west Iran, close to the border with Turkey, killing 9 people in Başkale, Van. It hit at 9:23 a.m. local time with a magnitude of 5.8 Mw at a depth of 6 kilometres and the epicenter was Qotur district, according to the Iranian Seismological Center (IRSC).

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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 “2020 Khoy earthquake”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2020 İran-Türkiye depremleri: İran'ın Batı Azerbaycan Eyaleti'nin Hoy ilinde meydana gelen 5.8 Mw ve 5.9 büyüklüğündeki depremlerde İran'da 75 kişi yaralandı”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Dos terremotos de 5,8 y 6,0 sacuden el noroeste de Irán dejando 9 muertos y varios heridos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page