Magnitude. Kalmyks in Russia's southwest and Buryats in Siberia are mostly Buddhist, Mongol-speaking ethnic groups. at 18:35 June 12, 2022 UTC, Location: The traces were discovered in January during an inspection of the Fordow uranium enrichment plant, and the IAEA is in discussions with Iran to clarify their origin. 14.2 km from Much of Moldova was part of Romania until World War II, before being occupied by the Soviet Union and transformed into a Soviet republic. 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 . The most recent of these was last year from Sept. 27 to Nov. 10, in one of the most brutal wars of the 21st century. $ 18.75. The ministry said separately on February 27 that the screenshots posted on social media were actually taken during the National Day military parade in the city of Alba Iulia on December 1, 2022, and that familiar landmarks, such as the city stadium, are visible in the background on video. 4.3 on Wednesday, Mar 1, 2023 at 2:52 pm (GMT +4), Mag. NewsNow aims to be the world's most accurate and comprehensive Armenian news . 11.2 km from The talks were held in Uzbekistan's capital on March 1, one day after Blinken took part in the C5+1 summit in Astana, which included foreign ministers from the five Central Asian nations -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. at 10:52 March 01, 2023 UTC, Location: Aleppo-SANA. Two earthquakes hit Armenia on December 7, 1988, killing 60,000 people and destroying nearly half a million buildings. Khvoy 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. 4.3 earthquake - Armenia, 76 km southwest of Tbilisi, K'alak'i T'bilisi, Georgia, on Wednesday, Mar 1, 2023 at 2:52 pm (GMT +4). 20.2 km from A spokesman for Iran's civilian nuclear program, Behrouz Kamalvandi, sought last week to portray any detection of uranium particles enriched to the level of 84 percent as a momentary side effect of trying to reach a finished product of 60 percent purity. The authorities have met the unrest with a harsh crackdown that rights groups say has killed more than 500 people, including 71 children. And 33 years later she has been recalling how support she received from a small community in the Highlands of Scotland helped her recover and inspired her future career path. The New Website Presents Stories from the 1988 Armenian Earthquake and Beyond. 0 earthquakes in the past 7 days. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Russian Service, click here. 14.2 km from The Armenian National Survey for Seismic Protection was founded in 1991, in addition to the . at 13:51 October 05, 2022 UTC, Location: The judge hearing the case in the Islamabad district court said Khan was repeatedly given the opportunity to appear in court but failed to do so. A woman takes a photo of her dog on a destroyed Russian tank on display in Vilnius on March 1. Today, Armenia has even more reasons than Greece to try and improve its relations with Turkey. Region: Turkey. ADB is helping Armenia reconstruct 46 schools according to international seismic safety standards to ensure they are safer in case of earthquakes. 8 earthquakes in the past 30 days. The agreement is set to expire on March 18. Yerevan, USSR: While miraculous stories of survival have already started coming in from earthquake-ravaged Turkey, these tales are a reminder of one such near-impossible rescue from the 1988 Armenian temblor, when a mother had kept her son alive, feeding him on her blood for days before the mother-son duo was pulled out of the rubble alive. Epicenter at 38.493, 45.064 Abdulali Rahimi Mozafari announced the news at a meeting of the Iranian Parliament on February 28, asking the speaker to order an investigation into the matter. They claim to have destroyed Russian forces, equipment, and fortifications in an effort to stymie the enemy advance. Find how many recent quakes there were, report a quake if you felt one! Now, the deadly February 6 earthquakes appear to have paved the way for Turkey to mend its ties with yet more of its neighbours. at 10:42 January 18, 2023 UTC, Location: Khvoy For all of RFE/RL's coverage of the war, click here. More than 6,500 people died in that fighting, which was ended by a Russia-brokered peace agreement. Qoms prosecutor has also warned the family not to talk to the media [and told them to] bury Fatemeh without notice.. at 16:16 September 27, 2022 UTC, Location: 10.2 km from About 25,000 people . Armenia and Azerbaijan have been sparring over Nagorno-Karabakh for decades. (6.2 miles), 2022-10-05 00:21:29 UTC (8.2 miles), 2023-01-29 03:48:10 UTC A Seismic Reckoning. 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. Ivanov served 25 days in jail on another case but was not released when his sentence was due to end in June. He said the 5.2 magnitude quake was followed by 165 aftershocks, the strongest of which had a magnitude of [] Tsurib 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. "Based on Hungarian procedure, adopting legislation takes about four weeks, so it follows that parliament can have a vote on this sometime in the second half of March, on the week of March 21," Gulyas said on February 25. (10.2 miles), 2023-01-18 10:42:40 UTC Inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog found uranium particles enriched up to nearly 84 percent in Iran's underground Fordow uranium enrichment site, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi confirmed on February 28. Construction of a further 70 kilometers, mainly in southeastern Finland, will take place between 2023 and 2025. Town of Spitak was entirely demolished as a result of the natural cataclysm, Gyumri (former Leninakan) lost 80%, Vanadzor (former Kirovakan) and Stepanavan towns . Epicenter at 40.802, 42.961 Under Orban, who has been in power since 2010, EU and NATO member Hungary has seen an accelerated slide toward authoritarianism and widespread corruption that prompted Brussels in November to propose freezing billions of euros of funds earmarked for Budapest. 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. 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. Devastating effects of the earthquake in Armenia. 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. Khvoy Susuz 20.2 km from 0 earthquakes in the past 7 days. at 05:55 January 19, 2023 UTC, Location: Abdalkin, who is a member of the Communist party, was ordered to come in for police questioning on March 1. Lypkan is charged with distributing false information about Russian armed forces involved in Moscows ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Reza Pahlavi, the former crown prince of Iran, says the fall of the Islamic republic and the establishment of a democratic government would not only liberate Iranians from the tyranny of a "terrorist regime," but also benefit global peace and stability and ensure the interests of the international community. 14.2 km from We're aiming to achieve uninterrupted service wherever an earthquake or volcano eruption unfolds, and your donations can make it happen! at 06:02 June 10, 2022 UTC, Location: 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. 16.2 km from At one point, the girl was temporarily sent to an orphanage before being returned to her father. In addition, one drone was downed in the Bryansk region and another crashed down near the city of Kolomna, near Moscow. 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 . It said the focus was 10 km deep, the magnitude was 3.4. But it likely would take months more to build a weapon and potentially miniaturize it to put it on a missile. To read the original story by AP, click here. (file photo). Russia has been using large numbers of infantry soldiers in its relentless attempts at surrounding Bakhmut, putting growing pressure on the Ukrainian forces. 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. January 1, 1989. Susuz Joshua Kucera Feb 13, 2023 Caucasus earthquake diplomacy tied up in regional politics Air traffic has since resumed. at 14:41 January 29, 2023 UTC, Location: Metsavan Epicenter at 38.424, 44.909 Khvoy Khvoy 7.2 km from Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has ordered an investigation into a wave of reported illnesses at girls' schools across the country amid allegations by some that the attacks are retaliation for students and women leading antigovernment protests sparked by the death of a young woman while in police custody for allegedly wearing a head scarf improperly. (file photo). After the earthquake. The strongest earthquake in Armenia today occurred 16 hours ago: Light mag. 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. Maksim Lypkan's lawyer, Alan Kachmazov, says cellmates forcibly shaved his clients head, leaving a Mohawk strip on it, and threatened to rape him. " 2023-03-01 10:52:36 UTC at 12:37 October 10, 2022 UTC, Location: 14.2 km from (17.2 miles), 2022-06-10 06:02:28 UTC "The other side says that we should have a word with these fine Finns and Swedes, because its not right for them to ask us to take them on board while theyre spreading blatant lies about Hungary, about the rule of law in Hungary, about democracy, about life here," Orban told Radio Kossuth. 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 . 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 . Khvoy Seismogram (vertical component) last 60 minutes. 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. The death toll from the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday is now at least 17,176, CNN reports, citing authorities. Khans lawyer, Ali Bukhari, said Khan would appear at the next hearing before Iqbal, but the lawyer for the Election Commission opposed any postponement. Kuleba also thanked Kyivs allies for standing by Ukraine.. A teacher from Qom -- which is about 135 kilometers south of the capital Tehran -- told Radio Farda that out of 250 students, about 200 missed classes, presumably from concerns over the illnesses. The law on immovable state property used for the functions of public authorities came into effect on February 28, the Republika Srpska's authority responsible for property matters told RFE/RL. Khvoy A day earlier, the Samara regional parliament condemned Abdalkin's post, calling it "impermissible." The two countries have never established formal diplomatic relations, although diplomatic contacts were resumed in late 2021. To read the original story by Reuters, click here. We are reaching out today to highlight this important work and to share this powerful piece written by Respond community member Leila Lorenzo. 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. Massive earthquake took place in Armenia on 7th of December 1988; the tremor had a magnitude of 7.1. A court in Russia's northwestern city of Novgorod on February 28 ordered the Interior Ministry to pay 20,000 rubles ($265) to Viktor Shalyakin, the chairman of the opposition Yabloko party's local branch, for wrongfully fining him in May 2022 for "discrediting Russia's armed forces" during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Khvoy REUTERS/Stringer ANKARA, Feb 15 . According to MES, at the epicenter the quake measured magnitude 6-7. HATAY. (8.2 miles), 2023-01-18 10:08:12 UTC 16.2 km from A day earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said its antiaircraft units knocked down two drones in the Krasnodar Krai region and one in the Republic of Adygea. 14.2 km from Sort. Epicenter at 40.802, 42.961 Epicenter at 41.157, 46.554 Source: Depth and magnitude of quakes versus time plot. Epicenter at 38.51, 44.798 Meanwhile, other have speculated that religious extremists, in a bid to create fear and prevent girls from attending school, could be behind the incidents. 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