Earthquakes near Dushanbe through history

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7.4 on October 21, 1907 (45 km SE of Panjakent, Tajikistan), for which NOAA records 12,000 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 7 here, back to 1907. NOAA records deaths in 5 of the events here, 15,952 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.2 on November 10, 2013 (Vahdat). NOAA’s record here begins on October 21, 1907 with an earthquake (45 km SE of Panjakent, Tajikistan). 1 of the 7 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here came before 1927.

• November 10, 2013Earthquake · M 5.2VahdatNOAA NCEI
• July 10, 1949Earthquake · M 7.543 km ENE of Rasht, Tajikistan · 3,500 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• October 21, 1907Earthquake · M 7.445 km SE of Panjakent, Tajikistan · 12,000 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Dushanbe 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.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Earthquakes, live, The world through history