Earthquakes in Tajikistan, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 254 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in Tajikistan. The strongest was a magnitude 6.9 on February 23, 2023 (65 km WSW of Murghob, Tajikistan).
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded 6 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 5.7 on July 10, 2021 (20 km SE of Rasht, Tajikistan), for which NOAA records 5 deaths. 5 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 3 of the events here, 7 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.8 on April 13, 2025 (42 km ESE of Rasht, Tajikistan).
The events
- April 13, 2025Earthquake · M 5.842 km ESE of Rasht, Tajikistan · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
- March 22, 2023Earthquake · M 5.846 km NNW of Novobod, TajikistanUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- February 23, 2023Earthquake · M 6.965 km WSW of Murghob, TajikistanUSGS
- July 10, 2021Earthquake · M 5.720 km SE of Rasht, Tajikistan · 5 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- February 12, 2021Earthquake · M 5.9Tajikistan-Xinjiang border region · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
- May 5, 2017Earthquake · M 5.828 km NNW of Karakenja, TajikistanUSGS
- May 3, 2017Earthquake · M 6.029 km NNW of Karakenja, TajikistanUSGS · NOAA NCEI
Good to know
- An event counts for Tajikistan 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 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.
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