Bojnūrd

Earthquakes near Bojnūrd through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 4 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Bojnūrd, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest on either list was an estimated magnitude 7.6 in February 1389 (Neyshabur (Nishapur)).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Bojnūrd in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7.2 on October 5, 1948 (14 km N of Ashgabat, Turkmenistan), for which NOAA records 110,000 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 19 here, back to 2001 BCE. NOAA records deaths in 13 of the events here, 150,803 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.6 on May 13, 2017 (Khorasan). NOAA’s record here begins in 2001 BCE with an earthquake (W). It grows thinner going back: 7 of the 19 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on.

The events

  • May 13, 2017Earthquake · M 5.6Khorasan · 3 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • October 5, 1948Earthquake · M 7.214 km N of Ashgabat, Turkmenistan · 110,000 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • May 1, 1929Earthquake · M 7.240 km SSE of Baharly, Turkmenistan · 3,800 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • February 1389Earthquake · M 7.6 (est.)Neyshabur (Nishapur)NOAA NCEI
  • 2001 BCEEarthquake · M 7.1 (est.)W · one death (NOAA)NOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Bojnūrd when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
  • USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
  • NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
  • Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
  • A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
  • Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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