1988 Spitak earthquake

December 1988 earthquake in Armenian SSR, USSR
Event earthquake Q815567
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1988 Spitak earthquake

Summary

1988 Spitak earthquake is an earthquake[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of earthquake entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (482 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • 1988 Spitak earthquake is in the country of Soviet Union[3].
  • 1988 Spitak earthquake's image is recorded as Surb Amenaprkitch.jpeg[4].
  • 1988 Spitak earthquake's instance of is recorded as earthquake[5].
  • 1988 Spitak earthquake's Commons category is recorded as Spitak earthquake[6].
  • 1988 Spitak earthquake's point in time is recorded as +1988-12-07T00:00:00Z[7].
  • 1988 Spitak earthquake's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 40.983333333333, 'lon': 44.183333333333}[8].
  • 1988 Spitak earthquake's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04w0kv[9].
  • 1988 Spitak earthquake's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+38000'}[10].
  • 1988 Spitak earthquake's different from is recorded as Q18992066[11].
  • 1988 Spitak earthquake's earthquake magnitude on the Richter magnitude scale is recorded as {'amount': '+6.8'}[12].
  • 1988 Spitak earthquake's modified Mercalli intensity scale is recorded as Mercalli scale X[13].
  • 1988 Spitak earthquake's USGS earthquake ID is recorded as iscgem417441[14].
  • 1988 Spitak earthquake's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as evenement/7-29-decembre-1988-seisme-meurtrier-en-armenie[15].
  • 1988 Spitak earthquake's vertical depth is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+10'}[16].
  • 1988 Spitak earthquake's ISC event ID is recorded as 417441[17].
  • 1988 Spitak earthquake's RIA Novosti reference is recorded as 1543502285[18].
  • 1988 Spitak earthquake's RIA Novosti reference is recorded as 982161952[19].
  • 1988 Spitak earthquake's Armeniapedia ID is recorded as 5371[20].

Why It Matters

1988 Spitak earthquake ranks in the top 3% of earthquake entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (482 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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