1926 Kars earthquake

Earthquake in Turkey 1926 Kars earthquake 1926-10-22 19:59:38 910181 iscgem910178 1926 10 22 yes 21:59 Caucasus mountains 7 km on 40.7 43.7 inline,titlehttp://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=3296&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display https://web.archive.org/web/20140516181454/http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=3296&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display dead May 16, 2014 Comments for the Significant Earthquake NGDC 28 August 2010 6.0 s y IXhttp://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr/sismo/ Bogazici University Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute National Earthquake Monitoring Center (NEMC) List of earthquakes 1900–2004 (Büyük Depremler) Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Turkish 28 August 2010 Turkey, Armenia 360 The 1926 Kars earthquake (also known as the Leninakan earthquake) occurred at 21:59 local time on 22 October along the border area of Soviet Armenia and eastern Turkey. It had a surface-wave magnitude of 6.0 and a maximum felt intensity of IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale, causing 360 casualties. Many buildings in Leninakan and surrounding villages were destroyed or damaged. The Soviet investigation by the geologist Pyotr Lebedev, published in 1927, noted that the quake could be felt as far away as Yerevan, Tiflis, Batumi and even Sochi, and that aftershocks lasted for several days. He noted that up to 300 people were killed in the quake in Soviet Armenia, with about the same number seriously injured. https://web.archive.org/web/20161224234631/http://www.mathnet.ru/php/archive.phtml?wshow=paper&jrnid=im&paperid=5500&option_lang=rus 2016-12-24 П. И. Лебедев, "Ленинаканское землетрясение 22 октября 1926 г"., Известия Академии наук СССР. VI серия, 21:5 (1927), 887–912 See also List of earthquakes in 1926 List of earthquakes in Turkey List of earthquakes in Armenia References 1926 Kars Category:Earthquakes in Armenia Category:Earthquakes in the Soviet Union Category:1926 in Turkey Category:1926 earthquakes Category:History of Kars Province Category:October 1926 in Asia Category:1926 disasters in the Soviet Union Category:1926 disasters in Turkey