Manjil Rudbar quake 1990
The 1990 Manjil Rudbar quake occurred in northern Iran at 00:30:09 local time on June 21, 1990 (21:00:09 June 20 , 1990 UTC ). It had a magnitude of 7.4; the hypocenter was 19 km deep.
About 40,000 people were killed and about 60,000 were injured. The quake had the most death toll in 1990.
It caused widespread damage in an area within 100 km of the epicenter near the city of Rasht , about 200 km northwest of Tehran . The cities of Rudbar , Manjil and Lushan and 700 villages were destroyed, and more than 300 other villages were affected. 100,000 adobe houses were badly damaged or collapsed, and 500,000 people were left homeless.
The total damage was about eight billion US dollars . In the provinces of Gilan and Zanjan in the southwest of the Caspian Sea alone, damage of around seven million US dollars was caused.
Web links
- Damage from the Manjil Rudbar quake. Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University , Fort Collins , Colorado
Individual evidence
- ↑ Magnitude 7 and Greater Earthquakes in 1990. ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. United States Geological Survey , Earthquake Information Center
- ↑ Earthquake Information for 1990. ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. United States Geological Survey, Earthquake Information Center
- ↑ June 20, 1990, Iran: Rasht, Qazvin, Zanjan, Rudbar, Manjil. NOAA Significant Earthquake Database
- ↑ Iran Earthquake of 1990. ( Memento July 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
Coordinates: 36 ° 57 ′ 25.2 ″ N , 49 ° 24 ′ 32.4 ″ E