The December 7, 1988 Armenia, USSR Earthquake

On December 7, 1988 at 11:41 A.M. local time, a powerful earthquake struck northwest Armenia, a Soviet republic with 3.5 million people. Armenia occupies approximately 30,000 square kilometers in the southern Caucus Mountains, generally considered the boundary between Europe and Asia. The event caused catastrophic damage that resulted in tens of thousands of deaths in a 400-square-kilometer epicentral region occupied by approximately 700,00 people. Damage and several deaths also occurred in the Kars region of Turkey, 80 kilometers southwest of the earthquake's epicenter.

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