(14.2 miles), 2022-07-27 23:48:23 UTC Every donation will be highly appreciated. 11.2 km from 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 10:08 January 18, 2023 UTC, Location: Armenia says this constitutes genocide. Add to Cart. This is an act of terrorism, and the Islamic republics failure to take it seriously for months raises serious questions regarding government complicity with groups that have the organizational capacity to carry out such major attacks, said Hadi Ghaemi in a news release. Image caption, The 6.8 magnitude quake affected an . (8.2 miles), 2023-01-18 10:08:12 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. Two Iranian-made drones were also shot down by Ukrainian air defenses, the military said, adding that several civilians were wounded in 12 air strikes and two missile strikes recorded over the past day. Garo Paylan: No casualties in Armenian village of Vakifli as a result of earthquake. To read the original story by RFE/RL's North.Realities, click here. A teacher from Qom - which is about 135 kilometers south of the capital Tehran -- told RFE/RL's Radio Farda that out of 250 students, only 50 attended classes. The article on Qom News was later deleted from its website. Epicenter at 37.166, 37.042 Khvoy Khan, whose seat in the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, remains vacant, was ousted in April 2022 through a no-confidence vote. Khvoy Seismogram (vertical component) last 60 minutes. Joshua Kucera Feb 13, 2023 Caucasus earthquake diplomacy tied up in regional politics ARMENIAN EARTHQUAKE: The World Disaster Series. 14.2 km from These and other cities, along with hundreds of villages, were completely leveled. Langer/U.S. 32.2 km from Epicenter at 40.813, 43.01 8 earthquakes in the past 30 days. Epicenter at 41.157, 43.936 Russian regional lawmaker Mikhail Abdalkin listens to Vladimir Putin's speech on February 21 with noodles on his ears. (12.2 miles), 2023-01-29 14:41:14 UTC In talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed that continuing theagreement is possible only if the interests of Russian agricultural and fertilizer producersare taken into account, the statement said. Lawmakers are expected to take a final vote in the second half of March. But Orban's chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, has signaled that the debate may take some time. Serdar Kilic, a former Turkish ambassador to several countries -- including the United States and Japan -- and currently Ankara's special envoy to Armenia, thanked Yerevan and wrote that a 28-person search-and-rescue team and technical equipment had been sent by Armenia immediately after the earthquake. 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. Epicenter at 38.411, 44.935 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. 11.2 km from After Spitak, the most severe effects of the 1988 earthquake were felt in Gyumri, then known as Leninakan, Armenia's second-largest city. Latest quakes in or near Armenia now or today. (10.2 miles), 2023-01-18 14:55:50 UTC After Russia launched its ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, most of the group's members fled the country. Maintaining our website and our free apps does require, however, considerable time and resources. This was reported by the news agency Sana, citing the seismological center. (4.2 miles), 2023-01-19 05:55:23 UTC The 27-member bloc demanded that Hungary implement credible rule-of-law and anti-corruption reforms if it wants that the money be released. 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. Khvoy 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). Terrain work were set to begin on February 28 "with forest clearance and will proceed in such a way that road construction and fence installation can be started in March," the Finnish Border Guard said. Epicenter at 41.34, 44.059 He told RFE/RL on February 28 that his passport expired while he was temporarily detained in Kazakhstan, which he passed through en route to Mongolia. An Iranian member of parliament has acknowledged reports of several groups of female students falling ill in at least 15 cities, with many being hospitalized in recent months. 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. (8.2 miles), 2023-01-29 03:48:10 UTC Epicenter at 38.49, 45.04 The mainly ethnic Armenian enclave is part of Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994 with some 30,000 dead. Last week, Nafiseh Moradi, a researcher of Islamic studies at Al Zahra University, an all-female public university in Tehran, said in a commentary that it was suspicious that girls, not boys, were mainly affected by the illnesses. A Seismic Reckoning. Khvoy An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 struck eight kilometres (five miles) south-east of Armenia's capital Yerevan, the emergency ministry said on Saturday. "The issue related to illegal activities of Armenia in the Azerbaijani lands, which was once occupied, should be discussed at the legal level. 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 . However, experts say such variance in the purity would appear suspicious to inspectors. 14.2 km from If the application does not load, try our legacy Latest Earthquakes application. At the time, the population was around 200,000, of which there were an estimated 15,000-17,000 fatalities. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 2023 RFE/RL, Inc. All Rights Reserved. /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today Armenia marks the 13-th anniversary of Spitak earthquake. at 15:33 February 11, 2023 UTC, Location: Susuz All images below are submissions to the World Bank/GFDRR "Building Disaster Resilience Across Armenia" photo contest, held 30 years after the 1988 Spitak Earthquake, and in tribute to the resilience of the Armenian people affected by this devastating event. "We remind everyone that the accuracy of such sensationalist and panicky information can best be verified by consulting official sources," the ministry said on February 28. (17.2 miles), 2022-06-10 06:02:28 UTC (6.2 miles), 2022-10-05 00:21:29 UTC Khvoy It said the focus was 10 km deep, the magnitude was 3.4. 7.2 km from 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 . 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. In his regular Friday interview with public radio, Orban on February 24 said that, while he is in favor of accepting the two new members, he also agrees with more radical lawmakers who say vaguely that "not all is well." at 20:09 January 28, 2023 UTC, Location: A lawmaker in the Russian region of Samara who mocked President Vladimir Putin's annual address to lawmakers says he has been summoned to meet with police. Republika Srpska says the law aims to ensure that properties used by the authorities of Republika Srpska, including local governments, public companies, public institutions, and other departments founded by Republika Srpska, belong to them. (8.2 miles), 2022-09-27 14:08:32 UTC (file photo). Epicenter at 40.803, 42.929 at 12:37 October 10, 2022 UTC, Location: Epicenter at 38.41, 44.805 at 10:52 March 01, 2023 UTC, Location: But it likely would take months more to build a weapon and potentially miniaturize it to put it on a missile. 0 earthquakes in the past 7 days. On 7 December 1988 a devastating earthquake in northern Armenia killed 25,000 and left hundreds of thousands homeless in the Soviet republic. at 01:17 February 06, 2023 UTC, Location: In addition, one drone was downed in the Bryansk region and another crashed down near the city of Kolomna, near Moscow. The economy of the region was also in shambles after the earthquake. "Referring to the concerns created in connection with the poisoning of a number of students in some schools, [the president] gave the Minister of the Interior a mission to follow up and find the root of the issue as quickly as possible, and to provide documented and continuous information about the results of the follow-ups," the president's office said in a statement following the cabinet meeting. Metsavan Khan said that the accusations against him in the Tosha Khana case are "baseless" and have been made to seek "political revenge." However, it was reposted several hundred times by dozens of Twitter accounts, with some even claiming that Romanian troops had already crossed into Moldova. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said in a statement on March 1 that the German ambassador had been summoned and informed of the decision. 28.2 km from at 18:14 January 28, 2023 UTC, Location: Epicenter at 38.49, 45.04 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. at 16:16 September 27, 2022 UTC, Location: Khan's lawyer asked the court to postpone the hearing for five days because Khan was appearing in court in two other cases. 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. EU defense ministers are expected to discuss the proposals at a meeting in Stockholm on March 7-8. (6.2 miles), 2022-10-05 00:21:29 UTC 20.2 km from Finland's accession to NATO passed with 184 of the parliament's 200 deputies voting in favor of the motion. 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. " 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. 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 . We are reaching out today to highlight this important work and to share this powerful piece written by Respond community member Leila Lorenzo. Khans lawyer, Ali Bukhari, said Khan would appear at the next hearing before Iqbal, but the lawyer for the Election Commission opposed any postponement. Shalyakin's case stemmed from his posting on social media a video about the Soviet-Afghan war and a crisis in Georgia. 32.2 km from Take Greece. The two tremors, only minutes apart, were measured at 6.9 and 5.8 in . Erci at 13:51 October 05, 2022 UTC, Location: (7.2 miles), 2023-01-28 18:14:45 UTC Moldova's pro-Western President Maia Sandu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy have warned that Moscow is planning destabilizing actions inside the country to justify a Russian invasion from Transdniester that could transform Moldova into a launch pad for Russian attacks on Ukraine. Khvoy As Russia concentrates its efforts on the industrial city, Ukrainian artillery units are pushing back against waves of assaults by Russian troops. YEREVAN (Public Radio of Armenia/Azatutyun/news.am) The earthquake registered in Armenia on February 13 was the strongest after the 1988 Spitak earthquake, Head of the Regional Survey for Seismic Protection Sos Margaryan told a press conference. Armenia Earthquake took place on December 7, 1988, at 11:41 am. 9 earthquakes in the past 30 days. KYIV -- Ukraine has denied any involvement with a series of drones that flew into Russian territory -- including one that got to within 100 kilometers of Moscow, prompting the Kremlin to order the military to tighten up its air defenses. at 05:55 January 19, 2023 UTC, Location: 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.". In the latest incident, two Iranian journalists reported on social media on February 28 that several schoolgirls in Tehran and in Pardis, just east of the Iranian capital, fell ill with the cause unknown. Mikhail Abdalkin's photo showing him listening to Putin's speech on February 21 with noodles on his ears went viral on the Internet. Spinu told RFE/RL that the Romanian military had been facing a wave of fake news since the start of the war in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, with some posts going viral. "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. Talks to revive the deal have been frozen for months. Instead, he was charged again over his social media posts about Russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine. Kalmyks in Russia's southwest and Buryats in Siberia are mostly Buddhist, Mongol-speaking ethnic groups. For more information and questions concerning our website contact us on the following address [emailprotected] If you like to insert an advertisment into our website write on the following address [emailprotected]. Khvoy The hearings in the other courts ruled that Khan was immune from arrest on separate charges relating to allegations of terrorism, attempted murder against a rival politician, and graft. 9.2 km from (12.2 miles), 2023-01-29 14:41:14 UTC The talks were held at the headquarters of the Russian peacekeeping forces stationed in Karabakh. 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 . U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (file photo), Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan (file photo), High Representative to Bosnia Christian Schmidt said on February 27 that the matter of state property "cannot be solved by unilateral actions." In Turkey, the death toll has risen to at least . By Reuters: 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 struck the region.But they fear for the future of their cherished home. The party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has endorsed bids by Finland and Sweden to join the NATO alliance, the Fidesz partys parliamentary faction said on March 1. (12.2 miles), 2022-06-12 18:35:21 UTC 0 earthquakes in the past 7 days. A woman buried alive in the Armenian earthquake . A day earlier, Boromangnaev told RFE/RL that his passport expired while he was temporarily detained in Kazakhstan, which he passed through en route to Mongolia. at 06:42 December 08, 2022 UTC, Location: Today, Turkey and Armenia are at odds primarily over the 1.5 million people Armenia says were killed in 1915 by the Ottoman Empire. 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. 14.2 km from The latest Armenia news, updated 24/7/365. 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. People get off a bus at the border crossing from Russia at the Vaalimaa border station in Finland. 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). According to MES, at the epicenter the quake measured magnitude 6-7. /ARKA/. Epicenter at 38.508, 44.823 "Russia is attempting to encircle [Bakhmut] right now, and they're using their best Wagner troops, apparently, the most well-trained and the most experienced to do that," economic adviser Oleksandr Rodnyanskiy told CNN. Since the Spitak earthquake, Armenia has made efforts to study and monitor the country's seismic activity and improve emergency preparedness. Nonproliferation experts have said Tehran has no civilian use for uranium purified to the level of 60 percent. The information about the discovery of the particles is contained in a confidential quarterly report by the IAEA that leaked out earlier on February 28. About 80% of structures there were destroyed, primarily large apartment blocks built in the late Soviet era. Showing him listening to Putin 's speech on February 21 with noodles his. 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