Kyrgyzstan
Earthquakes in Kyrgyzstan, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 55 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in Kyrgyzstan. None reached magnitude 6: the strongest was a magnitude 5.2 on March 22, 2024 (30 km ENE of Karakenja, Tajikistan).
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded 2 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
The latest: magnitude 4.7 on October 22 (139 km ENE of Kashgar, China).
What the record holds
17 came from 2022 on, against 38 in the five years before.
The events
- August 12, 2026Earthquake · M 5.069 km E of Chayek, KyrgyzstanUSGS
- August 5, 2025Earthquake · M 5.133 km N of Massy, KyrgyzstanUSGS
- March 22, 2024Earthquake · M 5.230 km ENE of Karakenja, TajikistanUSGS
- February 15, 2020Earthquake · M 5.198 km SE of Ak-Suu, KyrgyzstanUSGS
- November 16, 2017Earthquake · M 4.954 km SE of Kadzhi-Say, KyrgyzstanUSGS
Good to know
- An event counts for Kyrgyzstan when it began inside its borders. Damage can reach across them.
- USGS counts are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
- 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.
- The map frames the box around Kyrgyzstan, its neighbours’ quakes included, so its count runs higher than this page’s.
- 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