Beneath Armenia
Half a century of earthquakes, each one at its true depth under the mountains.
Loading EMSC and USGS data…Drag to rotate, scroll or pinch to zoom, hover a point for details. The block covers the Tauro-Caucasus region as in Karapetyan et al. (2024, BSSA 114, doi:10.1785/0120230291), about 1,450 × 1,000 km and 70 km deep, its edges fade out; relief height is exaggerated 5×, depth 3×. Earthquakes: around Armenia EMSC (from 2004, M≥2) and USGS (from 1970, M≥2.5), across the wider region both M≥3.5, loaded live; duplicates merged. IGES: epicentres from our public catalogue since September 2025, shown on the surface, any magnitude. Historical earthquakes 427–1969: NOAA NCEI Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K); without a known depth they are shown on the surface. Active faults: GEM Global Active Faults Database (Styron and Pagani, 2020). Spitak 1988 surface rupture: schematic trace; total length about 35–37 km after “30 Years after the Spitak Earthquake” (Yerevan, 2018). Terrain: SRTM via AWS Terrain Tiles; borders and lakes: Natural Earth.