EPIRB

Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon - distress radiobeacon, a tracking transmitter that is triggered during an accident. Article “EPIRB” in Hungarian Wikipedia has 5.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.31 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Hungarian) language version.

Since the creation of article “EPIRB”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Hungarian Wikipedia and edited by 665 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Hungarian Wikipedia and cited 850 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Hungarian): #1747 in May 2021
• Global: #2102 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Hungarian): #99244 in May 2021
• Global: #52321 in December 2016

There are 28 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Emergency position-indicating radio beacon		84.533
2	German (de) Notfunkbake		67.8083
3	French (fr) Radiobalise de localisation des sinistres		33.9327
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Nødpeilesendar		31.397
5	Spanish (es) Radiobaliza de emergencia		31.0418
6	Romanian (ro) Radiobaliză de localizare a catastrofelor		30.0988
7	Italian (it) Trasmettitore di localizzazione d'emergenza		29.4109
8	Hebrew (he) משואת איכון רדיו לשעת חירום		28.1289
9	Japanese (ja) 非常用位置指示無線標識装置		20.0201
10	Arabic (ar) محطة إرشاد راديوي للطوارئ محددة للمواقع		14.7054

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "EPIRB" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Emergency position-indicating radio beacon		1 669 572
2	German (de) Notfunkbake		374 954
3	Spanish (es) Radiobaliza de emergencia		243 356
4	Japanese (ja) 非常用位置指示無線標識装置		197 811
5	Russian (ru) Аварийный радиобуй		163 142
6	French (fr) Radiobalise de localisation des sinistres		122 354
7	Polish (pl) EPIRB		105 658
8	Italian (it) Trasmettitore di localizzazione d'emergenza		63 781
9	Norwegian (no) Nødpeilesender		51 735
10	Portuguese (pt) Epirb		43 266

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "EPIRB" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Emergency position-indicating radio beacon		4 843
2	Japanese (ja) 非常用位置指示無線標識装置		1 721
3	German (de) Notfunkbake		691
4	Russian (ru) Аварийный радиобуй		253
5	Polish (pl) EPIRB		234
6	French (fr) Radiobalise de localisation des sinistres		205
7	Italian (it) Trasmettitore di localizzazione d'emergenza		189
8	Spanish (es) Radiobaliza de emergencia		166
9	Dutch (nl) EPIRB		53
10	Portuguese (pt) Epirb		50

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "EPIRB" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Emergency position-indicating radio beacon		316
2	German (de) Notfunkbake		106
3	French (fr) Radiobalise de localisation des sinistres		37
4	Japanese (ja) 非常用位置指示無線標識装置		23
5	Russian (ru) Аварийный радиобуй		21
6	Polish (pl) EPIRB		18
7	Spanish (es) Radiobaliza de emergencia		16
8	Norwegian (no) Nødpeilesender		15
9	Italian (it) Trasmettitore di localizzazione d'emergenza		13
10	Swedish (sv) Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon		13

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "EPIRB" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Emergency position-indicating radio beacon		1
2	Arabic (ar) محطة إرشاد راديوي للطوارئ محددة للمواقع		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Авариен радиомаяк		0
4	Czech (cs) EPIRB		0
5	Danish (da) Nødpejlesender		0
6	German (de) Notfunkbake		0
7	Greek (el) EPIRB		0
8	Spanish (es) Radiobaliza de emergencia		0
9	Estonian (et) Avariipoi		0
10	Finnish (fi) Hätäpaikannusradiopoiju		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "EPIRB" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Emergency position-indicating radio beacon		326
2	Italian (it) Trasmettitore di localizzazione d'emergenza		126
3	German (de) Notfunkbake		104
4	French (fr) Radiobalise de localisation des sinistres		75
5	Japanese (ja) 非常用位置指示無線標識装置		56
6	Spanish (es) Radiobaliza de emergencia		29
7	Russian (ru) Аварийный радиобуй		23
8	Norwegian (no) Nødpeilesender		21
9	Polish (pl) EPIRB		14
10	Indonesian (id) Emergency Locator Beacon Aircraft		10

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic محطة إرشاد راديوي للطوارئ محددة للمواقع
bg	Bulgarian Авариен радиомаяк
cs	Czech EPIRB
da	Danish Nødpejlesender
de	German Notfunkbake
el	Greek EPIRB
en	English Emergency position-indicating radio beacon
es	Spanish Radiobaliza de emergencia
et	Estonian Avariipoi
fi	Finnish Hätäpaikannusradiopoiju
fr	French Radiobalise de localisation des sinistres
gl	Galician EPIRB
he	Hebrew משואת איכון רדיו לשעת חירום
hu	Hungarian EPIRB
id	Indonesian Emergency Locator Beacon Aircraft
it	Italian Trasmettitore di localizzazione d'emergenza
ja	Japanese 非常用位置指示無線標識装置
nl	Dutch EPIRB
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Nødpeilesendar
no	Norwegian Nødpeilesender
pl	Polish EPIRB
pt	Portuguese Epirb
ro	Romanian Radiobaliză de localizare a catastrofelor
ru	Russian Аварийный радиобуй
sl	Slovenian ELT
sv	Swedish Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon
tr	Turkish Acil durum vericileri
uk	Ukrainian EPIRB

Best Rank

Hungarian: #99244 05.2021

Global: #52321 12.2016

Best Rank

Hungarian: #1747 05.2021

Global: #2102 10.2002

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