1970 5/14 18:12 UTC 43.09N 47.06E 11km M=6.6, Dagestan, Russia
The death toll of this earthquake was "many" according to Utsu (2002), A list of deadly
earthquakes in the world: 1500-2000, in "International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering
Seismology", edited by W.H.K. Lee, H. Kanamori, P.C. Jennings, and C. Kisslinger, Part A, p.
691-717, Academic Press,
San Diego.
Since we have very little information about this
earthquake, we urge scientists and engineers who have studied this earthquake to contribute their
materials for this archive. Please contact William H. K. Lee at:
lee@usgs.gov (office), or whklee@ix.netcom.com (home).
Contributors: Charles R. Hutt, William H. K. Lee.
1. Seismograms of the 1970
Dagestan (Russia) Earthquake:
Selected WWSSN
seismograms from this earthquake were scanned as part of the ICSU
Scanning Project.
Please note that there was a foreshock occurred on the same date:
1970
5/14 09:20 UTC 43.08 47.08W mb = 5.5
link to compressed tif file directory (.gz format)
(Last Updated: September 24, 2004)