USGS Magnitude 2.5+ Earthquakes, Past Day 40 earthquakes. The magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck the Armenian Republic on December 7, 1988, was considered one of the strongest in more than 80 years, affecting at least 20 cities and towns and destroying . Only List Earthquakes Shown on Map . Epicenter at 41.157, 46.554 Schmidt said on February 27 that the matter of state property "cannot be solved by unilateral actions and reminded all decision makers that the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the right place to resolve that issue. Erci 33 earthquakes in the past 365 days. at 10:42 January 18, 2023 UTC, Location: Iran has expelled two German diplomats, saying they interfered with the country's internal affairs. About 25,000 people . 14.2 km from Trucks with humanitarian aid have crossed the Margara bridge on the border and are on their way to the earthquake-stricken region, Vahan Hunanian, the press spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry, wrote in a Twitter post on February 11. Metsavan 10.2 km from Khvoy 8 earthquakes in the past 30 days. The intensity of the fighting is only increasing," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his evening address on February 28. Khvoy at 13:51 October 05, 2022 UTC, Location: Some analysts said the spate of recent drone flights into Russian territory could be practice runs for a potential future strike by Ukraine deep inside Russia. Epicenter at 38.411, 44.935 Since the Spitak earthquake, Armenia has made efforts to study and monitor the country's seismic activity and improve emergency preparedness. The government has held several counterrallies to try and quell the dissent, but people continue to take to the streets across the country, as universities and schools have become leading venues for clashes between protesters and the authorities. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the earthquake occurred 14 km north-east of the village of Bavra on the border with Georgia. Russia has falsely claimed that Ukraine is planning to invade Transdniester, raising suspicions that Moscow is looking for a pretext to annex the separatist region, as it did with Ukraine's Crimea in 2014. Pahlavi is scheduled to speak at the European Parliament on March 10 at the invitation of Charlie Weimers, a representative of Sweden in the European Parliament. 14.2 km from Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat . The first two drones fell near an oil reserve belonging to energy giant Rosneft in the city of Tuapse, causing a fire that did not reach the reserve, the ministry said. YEREVAN -- Armenia has sent humanitarian aid to earthquake-stricken Turkey across the long-closed border separating the two historic enemies, the government in Yerevan said. More than twenty-five thousand people were killed. Around 58,700 students, teachers, and school staff will benefit from an ADB project improving the seismic safety of 46 schools in Armenia. 25.2 km from Whenever the plates moving beneath Armenia interlock, pressure builds. In the past 24 hours, Armenia had 5 quakes up to magnitude 4.3. Finland says it has begun construction of a 200-kilometer fence on the Russian border as Helsinki fears Moscow could use migrant flows at the frontier for political purposes. 5.9 on Saturday, Jan 28, 2023 at 9:44 pm (GMT +3:30). In a previous sign of warming relations, Turkey and Armenia in February 2022 resumed their first commercial flights in two years. 2023-03-01 10:52:36 UTC On February 10, a group of exiled Iranian opposition figures pleaded for unity and an end to infighting to help recent nationwide protests in Iran against the country's Islamic theocracy. YEREVAN, October 5. Langer/U.S. (17.2 miles), 2022-07-11 05:10:52 UTC Epicenter at 38.41, 44.805 (file photo). /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today Armenia marks the 13-th anniversary of Spitak earthquake. A phone call on July 11, 2022, was Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian's first direct contact with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Former Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj placed a video on Twitter on March 1 showing Boromangnaev leaving the airport's gates with an added caption: "Good-bye, Hero." at 08:21 February 12, 2023 UTC, Location: A dreadful earthquake struck a densely populated region of Armenia on December 7, 1988. Region: Turkey. Noravank monastery, a 16th centry marvel which sustained a terrible earthquake in the 20's, stands April 25, 2004 in Armenia. As Russia concentrates its efforts on the industrial city, Ukrainian artillery units are pushing back against waves of assaults by Russian troops. 14.2 km from In his reply, he said that he had not given any wrong information and had revealed all the details. Epicenter at 38.254, 43.976 (12.2 miles), 2022-06-12 18:35:21 UTC Khvoy Nurda Tyvans are another mostly Buddhist indigenous people in Siberia, whose language is Turkic. at 03:48 January 29, 2023 UTC, Location: Epicenter at 41.34, 44.059 With reporting by AFP. Finland's parliament has overwhelmingly backed its bid to join NATO, the assembly's speaker said. Epicenter at 38.406, 45.008 Earlier this week, top Iranian Sunni cleric Molavi Abdulhamid, who is regarded as a spiritual leader for Irans Sunni Muslim population, said schoolgirls were being poisoned as "revenge" for the role young women have played in recent protests against the government. (6.2 miles), 2022-09-27 14:24:40 UTC The eight figures, including Pahlavi, said they were working on a charter for a transition to a new pluralistic system that would be followed by free elections. To read the original story by Reuters, click here. Tosha Khana refers to the place where leaders of the country, members of parliament, bureaucrats, and other high-ranking officials leave gifts received during foreign trips. Thirty of the village's 40 stone houses, which are single or double-storey and surrounded by orange and lemon orchards, are heavily damaged, and since a . A moderate magnitude 3.4 earthquake was registered at 12.31 pm today in the northwestern Armenian province of Shirak. Approval of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's treaties and Finland's accession passed with 184 members of the 200-seat parliament voting in favor, seven against, and one abstaining. The magnitude of the earthquake which shook northwestern Armenia was 6.9 and this was followed by another earthquake four minutes later, measuring 5.8 on Richter scale. I will always remember the generous aid sent by the people of Armenia to help alleviate the sufferings of our people in the earthquake stricken region, he wrote. Batyr Boromangnaev, who is deputy of Kalmyks self-governing Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk people and former leader of the Yabloko party's branch in Kalmykia, is currently stuck at immigration services in Ulan Bator's international airport. Lypkan is charged with distributing false information about Russian armed forces involved in Moscows ongoing invasion of Ukraine. He did not say what the deadline for the diplomats to leave was. Epicenter at 40.802, 42.961 The earthquake measured 6-7 at the epicenter and was felt across Armenia. Find how many recent quakes there were, report a quake if you felt one! (17.2 miles), 2022-06-10 06:02:28 UTC Epicenter at 38.51, 44.798 Epicenter at 38.508, 44.823 Officials, who have blamed the West for the demonstrations, have vowed to crack down even harder on protesters. Epicenter at 38.543, 44.878 See how many recent quakes occurred in or near Armenia, report a quake if you felt one! (7.2 miles), 2022-09-27 16:16:56 UTC As of February 12, the death toll passed 30,000, while the number of wounded reached almost . Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan met Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus on Thursday, as the Syrian regime seeks to end its international isolation following 6 February's devastating earthquakes.. Mirzoyan expressed his "condolences and support" for Syrians following the earthquakes, which killed tens of thousands in Turkey and Syria, according to the Syrian regime's news website SANA. Less than a minute. The economy of the region was also in shambles after the earthquake. Now, the deadly February 6 earthquakes appear to have paved the way for Turkey to mend its ties with yet more of its neighbours. Epicenter at 38.543, 44.878 Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu said the border crossing was last used in 1988 when the Turkish Red Crescent sent aid to Armenia, which itself had been hit by a devastating earthquake. As a result, the region has been plagued by sever earthquakes for thousands of years: an earthquake in 893 A.D. took an estimated 20,000 lives; another in 1667 took 80,000 lives. 14.2 km from Interim bail was granted in each of the cases. (13.2 miles), 2023-02-06 01:17:35 UTC The court's decision was later cancelled after linguists concluded that Shalyakin's post was not related to the ongoing war in Ukraine, after which Shalyakin sued the ministry. "This understanding of cooperation can contribute to . The Office of the High Representative was granted those powers in the implementation of the peace accords that ended the 1992-95 Bosnian War. The Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk people has regularly coordinated Kalmyk activists' congresses in Russia's Republic of Kalmykia near the North Caucasus region since 2015. Metsavan The #1ROOT and #NoWar groups said on March 1 that Batyr Boromangnaev, the deputy chairman of Kalmyks self-governing Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk people and former leader of the Yabloko partys branch in Kalmykia, was allowed to leave Mongolia for the United States. A U.S. Defense Department official on February 28 described the front line in Ukraine as a "grinding slog" but said he did not expect Russia to be able to make significant territorial gains in the near term. 20.2 km from Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani (file photo), Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban (file photo), Mykhaylo Podolyak, an adviser to the chief of Ukraine's presidential office, has denied that Kyiv had anything to do with the drones shot down over Russian territory. On December 7, 1988, a devastating earthquake, centered in northern Armenia between the cities of Spitak and Stepanavan, rocked the country. Ozurgeti During a six-week war in 2020, Azerbaijan regained control of much of Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent territories held by Armenian forces. 10.2 km from 11.2 km from Magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit 16 km northeast of the village of Bavra near the Armenian-Georgian border, the Ministry of Emergency Situations informs. Qoms prosecutor has also warned the family not to talk to the media [and told them to] bury Fatemeh without notice.. To read the original story by Current Time, click here. The Earth's crust is a jigsaw of rigid plates like huge paving stones. Susuz Khvoy Mevlt Cavusoglu also thanked the Armenian rescuers who "rescued a little girl and a woman" in Adiyaman, one of the towns hit by the earthquake. 28 earthquakes in the past 365 days. According to the Turkish news agency, the border gates in the Turkish eastern province of Igdir had been opened last in 1988 to allow for Turkish supplies to be sent to Armenia after an earthquake . A day earlier, Ukrainian police said 18 online channels and social-network groups created "to destabilize the situation in Ukraine via a new youth movement from the Russian Federation" had been blocked. Pahlavi's father, the former Shah of Iran, was deposed during the Islamic Revolution in 1979. A prosecutor asked Moscows Timiryazev district court on March 1 to sentence Dmitry Ivanov, the administrator of the Protesting MGU (Moscow State University) Telegram channel, to nine years in prison on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces. Image caption, The 6.8 magnitude quake affected an . For the 30th anniversary of the 1988 Armenian earthquake, a group of Peace Corps Volunteers together with Armenian volunteers have initiated a project called Story Beyond the Ruins. Khvoy (14.2 miles), 2022-07-27 23:48:23 UTC Epicenter at 38.493, 45.064 5.2 km from NewsNow aims to be the world's most accurate and comprehensive Armenian news . HATAY. I trust the National Assembly will make a wise decision as soon as possible." Despite Schmidts decision to repeal the decree, the law on immovable properties was published in the official journal of Republika Srpska and was passed by the Republika Srpska Assembly on February 10. at 22:00 January 29, 2023 UTC, Location: at 10:42 January 18, 2023 UTC, Location: Bakale 2023-02-12 02:43:51 (UTC-08:00) 44.1 . Date Region Time Mag. They claim to have destroyed Russian forces, equipment, and fortifications in an effort to stymie the enemy advance. "There is no plausible civilian justification for such a high enrichment level. MMI Epicenter Depth (km) Fatalities Injuries Ref 2022-02-13 Metsavan: 18:25 UTC: 5.3 VI 10.0 2 2021-02-13 Hovtashen: 11:29 . The first incident is believed to have occurred in November, when 18 schoolgirls in the city of Qom were taken to a hospital after complaining of symptoms that included nausea, headaches, coughing, breathing difficulties, heart palpitations, and numbness and pain in their hands or legs. Today, Turkey and Armenia are at odds primarily over the 1.5 million people Armenia says were killed in 1915 by the Ottoman Empire. Karabakh representatives told RFE/RLs Armenian Service they are ready to discuss the installation of X-ray machines in the corridor, but they must be controlled by Russian peacekeepers. Officials have only recently admitted there may be a problem, with parliament member Abdulali Rahimi Mozafari on February 28 calling on the speaker to order an investigation into the matter. Taking to Twitter, Turkey's special representative for normalization talks with Armenia, Serdar Kilic said that the Armenia delegation with five trucks overloaded with 100 tonnes of . The executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on February 28 accused the government of "an act of terrorism" through its failure to take the wave of illnesses seriously for months, raising "serious questions regarding government complicity with groups that have the organizational capacity to carry out such major attacks.". Last week, Nafiseh Moradi, a researcher of Islamic studies at Al Zahra University, a women's public university in Tehran, said in a commentary that it was suspicious that girls, not boys, were mainly affected by the illnesses. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu shakes hands with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan . at 14:43 September 27, 2022 UTC, Location: Kalmyks in Russia's southwest and Buryats in Siberia are mostly Buddhist, Mongol-speaking ethnic groups. 11.2 km from Earlier this month, U.S. President Joe Biden met with Sandu in Poland and "reaffirmed strong U.S. support for Moldova's sovereignty and territorial integrity.". 2.7 earthquake - East Azerbaijan, 32 km southeast of Khvoy, West Azerbaijan, Iran, on Wednesday, Mar 1, 2023 at 10:36 pm (GMT +3:30). Russia will only agree to extend a deal under which Ukraine is able to export grain from its Black Sea ports if doing so is in Moscows interests, Russias Foreign Ministry said in a March 1 statement. at 14:55 January 18, 2023 UTC, Location: Epicenter at 38.424, 44.909 The caption of the image read, "Romania deployed antiaircraft systems to the border with Moldova. In neighboring Ukraine, Yaroslav Shanko of the National Police said on March 1 that police had managed to prevent 41 potential mass brawls by Ryodan members in several regions in recent days. Armenia has had: (M1.5 or greater) 0 earthquakes in the past 24 hours. Armenia Earthquake took place on December 7, 1988, at 11:41 am. Although Ryodan is a relatively new youth subculture, it has gained prominence amid reports that its members have been involved in mass brawls in public places with representatives of other youth movements. The New Website Presents Stories from the 1988 Armenian Earthquake and Beyond. The influx of Russian citizens, mostly of Kalmyk, Buryat, and Tyvan origin, to Mongolia has dramatically increased since President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilization to support the war in Ukraine in late September last year. (12.2 miles), 2023-01-29 14:41:14 UTC All principal determinants of structural damage and crush injury converged to magnify the dreadful outcomes of this otherwise modest earthquake, which registered 6.9 on the Richter scale. The two also asked Iranian protester Vahid Beheshti, who has been on a hunger strike outside the House of Commons for days, to end his hunger strike. Member of the Turkish Parliament of Armenian origin Garo Paylan said that no one was injured during the earthquake in the Armenian village of Vakifli. Khvoy at 14:24 September 27, 2022 UTC, Location: A leading Kalmyk activist whom Mongolian officials did not allow to enter their country because his Russian passport had expired has left Ulan Bator international airport for the United States. 19.2 km from The only road linking Azerbaijans Nagorno-Karabakh region to Armenia has been blocked by government-backed Azerbaijani protesters since December 12. 0 earthquakes in the past 7 days. December 7, 1988 the earthquake with intensity of 9,8 points shook the northern regions of Armenia. Some angry parents have refused to send their children to school. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has discussed bilateral ties with acting Uzbek Foreign Minister Baxtiyor Saidov. A Twitter account called Geoinsider that bears the site's "verified" blue check mark published on February 26 an image allegedly depicting Romanian troops moving toward the Moldovan border. Khvoy According to MES, at the epicenter the quake measured magnitude 6-7. The 1988 Armenian earthquake, also known as the Spitak earthquake (Armenian: , Spitaki yerkrasharj), occurred on December 7 at 11:41 local time with a surface wave magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating).The shock occurred in the northern region of Armenia (then Armenian SSR, as part of the Soviet Union) which is vulnerable to large and . Thus, Ankara had helped Yerevan after an earthquake that had hit it in 1988. Republic of Armenia Epicenter at 41.34, 44.059 Amid the February 28 reports about the drones, authorities in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, closed the airspace over the city and stopped all flights to and from the city's Pulkovo airport. The Investigative Committee of Belarus said on March 1 that the probe was launched into "actions that blatantly disrupt social order," after 200 youths were detained near a mall in the southeastern city of Homel the previous day. More than 6,500 people died in that fighting, which was ended by a Russia-brokered peace agreement. The article on Qom News was later deleted from its website. Today in Armenia, Dec. 7 is a day of remembrance: Armenian Earthquake Memorial Day. Erci Khvoy Get the big Armenian stories, from the best Armenia sources on NewsNow: the one-stop shop for Armenia news. The party, together with a junior partner, controls over two-thirds of the seats in Hungarys parliament. 11.2 km from Shanko added that, in all, some 800 youths, mostly under the age of 18, had been summoned by police, where they were told about the possible repercussions of organizing and participating in mass brawls in public places. It is seen as an attempt by Republika Srpska to transfer state property from Bosnia to the Serb entity. 5.2 km from Epicenter at 38.511, 45.038 To read the original story by RFE/RL's Russian Service, click here. Epicenter at 38.613, 44.78 (4.2 miles), 2023-01-19 05:55:23 UTC Epicenter at 38.508, 44.823 Happy to have been able to assist, Ruben Rubinian, vice president of the Armenian National Assembly, wrote along with a photo showing an Armenian truck entering Turkey from the bridge. The code has been copied to your clipboard. Khvoy Khvoy 2023-03-01 10:52:36 UTC In a statement to RFE/RL, Defense Ministry spokesman Constantin Spinu rejected those claims, saying that "there have been no changes whatsoever in the deployment of Romanian forces and antiaircraft systems.". (14.2 miles), 2023-01-31 04:13:04 UTC Epicenter at 38.493, 45.064 It is unclear how and under what conditions Boromangnaev was allowed to travel to the United States. RFE/RL's Live Briefing gives you all of the latest developments on Russia's ongoing invasion, Kyiv's counteroffensive, Western military aid, global reaction, and the plight of civilians. Opposition politician Marina Litvinovich said on March 1 that Aleksei Moskalyov was arrested over his own anti-war posts online and charged with discrediting Russia's armed forces. Kalmyks in Russia's southwest and Buryats in Siberia are mostly Buddhist, Mongol-speaking ethnic groups. Kyiv has said it reserves the right to strike at targets inside Russia, which invaded Ukraine last February, but has consistently refused to take responsibility for several strikes that have occurred on Russian soil since the conflict started. Schmidt attempted to block the law last year by declaring unconstitutional a decree issued by Zeljka Cvijanovic, then-president of Republika Srpska, on the enactment of the law. The devastating earthquakes of 7.8 and 7.5 magnitudes struck southern Turkey on February 6, 2023. Latest quakes in or near Armenia now or today. at 14:24 September 27, 2022 UTC, Location: He said the Defense Ministry had established its own anti-fake-news platform called Inforadar to discredit and dispute the fake claims. 13.2 km from Mykhaylo Podolyak, an adviser to the chief of Ukraine's presidential office, wrote on Twitter on March 1 that "Ukraine does not carry out attacks on Russian territory" and had nothing to do with drones that fell and exploded on Russian territory. Humanitarian aid and rescue teams have begun flowing into Turkey following the catastrophic earthquake five days ago that killed at least 25,000 people and injured tens of thousands more. Some angry parents have refused to send their children to school. Epicenter at 38.573, 44.586 "Despite suffering significant losses, the enemy has been throwing into combat the best prepared assault units of Wagner [mercenaries], who are attempting to break through the defenses of our troops and surround the city," Syrskiy said. On the day of the quake, two men arrive in their home town only to be caught up in the terrible events and must work together to rescue as many people as they can before the aftershocks hit. Armenian Foreign Minister to visit Turkey "On February 15, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan will visit Turkey." "Minister Mirzoyan will meet the Armenian rescue team that carries out search and rescue operations in the earthquake-affected city of Adiyaman." Turkey has mostly objected to the membership of Sweden, which it says has given safe haven to Kurdish groups that Ankara labels as terrorists, while Hungary says that the two Nordic countries' membership needs careful consideration without airing any specific complaints. 7.2 km from Khvoy Air traffic has since resumed. Today, Armenia has even more reasons than Greece to try and improve its relations with Turkey. 0 earthquakes in the past 7 days. 18:08, 16.02.2023. Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu said the border crossing was last used in 1988 when the Turkish Red Crescent sent aid to Armenia, which itself had been hit by a devastating earthquake. Orban has also antagonized European Union officials with his repeated criticism of EU sanctions targeting Russia for its war in Ukraine and his continuous attempts to hinder implementing new punitive measures against Moscow. VAKIFLI, Turkey In Turkey's only remaining ethnic Armenian village, Vakifli, the elderly population thank God that not one of them died during the devastating earthquakes that . The historical list of Iran's (mainly harmless) thousands of earthquakes stretches further than the eye can see, but the last quake that killed tens of thousands was the 6.6-magnitude Bam . He also did not give any concrete details about how the diplomats had broken protocol. The implementation of the law is a direct challenge to previous decisions by Schmidt to repeal the original decree creating the law and his decision on February 27 to suspend it pending a final decision by Bosnia's Constitutional Court. Europe. Support for Finland's application remains pending from Turkey and Hungary. Beheshti had been protesting to persuade Britain to label the IRGC as a terrorist organization. Khvoy But in a grim way, he was lucky: A chunk of concrete was pressing on his leg in just the right place . Armenia says this constitutes genocide. at 06:02 June 10, 2022 UTC, Location: Three decades later, the region is yet to recover from a disaster that killed more than 25,000 people and destroyed tens . at 05:55 January 19, 2023 UTC, Location: Khvoy (9.2 miles), 2022-12-08 06:42:15 UTC The stockpile of 60 percent uranium increased by 25 kilograms and currently stands at just under 88 kilograms, according to the report. at 03:48 January 29, 2023 UTC, Location: Earlier this week, top Iranian Sunni cleric Molavi Abdulhamid, who is regarded as a spiritual leader for Irans Sunni Muslim population, said schoolgirls were being poisoned as revenge for the role young women have played in recent protests against the government. 38.511, 45.038 to read the original story by Reuters, click here Stories from 1988. Warming relations, Turkey and Armenia are at odds primarily over the 1.5 million people Armenia says were in! 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