Earthquakes in Tajikistan through history
From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 31 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more in Tajikistan. 4 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest was a magnitude 7.5 on July 10, 1949 (43 km ENE of Rasht, Tajikistan).
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded 4 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
The latest: magnitude 4.9 on October 19 (77 km WSW of Murghob, Tajikistan).
What the record holds
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 27 here, back to 1907. NOAA records deaths in 13 of the events here, 4,371 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.8 on April 13, 2025 (42 km ESE of Rasht, Tajikistan). NOAA’s record here begins on October 21, 1907 with an earthquake (45 km SE of Panjakent, Tajikistan). It grows thinner going back: 26 of the 27 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on.
The events
- April 13, 2025Earthquake · M 5.842 km ESE of Rasht, Tajikistan · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
- December 7, 2015Earthquake · M 7.2104 km W of Murghob, Tajikistan · 2 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- July 10, 1949Earthquake · M 7.543 km ENE of Rasht, Tajikistan · 3,500 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- February 18, 1911Earthquake · M 7.2120 km W of Murghob, Tajikistan · 318 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- October 23, 1908Earthquake · M 6.9127 km E of Khorugh, TajikistanUSGS
- October 21, 1907Earthquake · M 7.445 km SE of Panjakent, Tajikistan · 12,000 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
Good to know
- An event counts for Tajikistan when it began inside its borders. Damage can reach across them.
- 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.
- The map frames the box around Tajikistan, 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