1988 Armenian earthquake
December 1988 earthquake in Armenian SSR, USSR From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
The 1988 Armenian earthquake, also known as the Spitak earthquake (Armenian: Սպիտակի երկրաշարժ, Spitaki yerkrasharj), happened on December 7 at 11:41 local time with a surface wave magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating).[1]
The shock happened in the northern region of Armenia. Between 25,000 and 50,000 were killed and up to 130,000 were injured.
Despite the tensions of the Cold War, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev formally asked the United States for humanitarian help within a few days of the earthquake.[2]
Remove ads
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads