Armenian News... Earthquake in Armenia report!
Origin time 07:41 UTC
Magnitude 6.8 Ms
Areas affected Soviet Union
Date 7 December 1988
Duration < 20 seconds
Type Thrust
Depth 5,000 m
Epicenter Nalband, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union (present-day Shirakamut, Lori Province, Armenia)
Similar 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 1948 Ashgabat earthquake, 1906 San Francisco earthquake, 1976 Tangshan earthquake
The 1988 Armenian earthquake, also known as the Spitak earthquake (Armenian: Սպիտակի երկրաշարժ Spitaki yerkrašarž) occurred in the northern region of Armenia (then part of the Soviet Union) on December 7 at 11:41 local time (07:41 UTC). The earthquake measured 6.8 on the surface wave magnitude scale and had a maximum perceived intensity of X (Devastating) on the Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale. The region that the earthquake occurred is vulnerable to occasional large and destructive earthquakes and is part of a larger active seismic belt that stretches from the Alps to the Himalayas. Activity in the area is associated with tectonic plate boundary interaction and the source of the event was a slip of a thrust fault just to the north of Spitak.
Read more about it:
Conference on the UK response to the Spitak Earthquake.
Place: Samuel Alexander Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building, Manchester,
Starts 17:00, ends 19:00,
date: 12th of Dec 2018.
Speaker:
Professor A D Redmond, Emeritus Professor,
Dr Joanne Laycock,
Mr Ara Nahabedian, MD MS BS
on the UK Armenian Response.
Please see the entry for this on the events page of HCRI:
and the Facebook event:
BBC Radio 4: 7th Dec 2018.
BBC Radio 4 program took Mr Paul Burns back to Spitak last week.
Mr Paul Burns , Retired Lancashire fireman, went to Spitak many times and specially on behalf of Manchester community 30 years ago.
They have made a radio program that will be broadcast on the 7th of Dec, on the anniversary of the earthquake.
BBC Radio 4
‘Crossing Continents’
on Dec 20th, at 1100
repeated on Dec the 24th at 2030.
After the 1st broadcast,- it will be available online via the ‘Crossing Continents’ webpage, + and on BBC Radio i-player.
Duration= R4: Between 27’30” and 27’45”
BBC World Service
Also on Dec 20th
A slightly shorter version will be broadcast on ‘Assignment’ on at multiple times depending on time zone.
This will also be available on the ‘Assignment ’website, i-player and the “Documentary” podcast.
Duration= World Service: One version 26’59”, another one 23’29”
Armenian Radio
in Armenian with self explanatory photos:
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