Earthquakes in Tajikistan, 1927–2026
From 1927 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 21 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more in Tajikistan. 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 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
It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 3,500 deaths for it. 26 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 12 of the events here, 4,053 in all. The ten years with the most magnitude 6+ earthquakes were 1947–1956, with 7 of the 21. 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
- February 23, 2023Earthquake · M 6.965 km WSW of Murghob, TajikistanUSGS
- December 7, 2015Earthquake · M 7.2104 km W of Murghob, Tajikistan · 2 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- January 22, 1989Earthquake · M 5.3Sharora, Gissar · 274 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- November 1, 1978Earthquake · M 6.838 km SE of Kyzyl-Eshme, KyrgyzstanUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- July 10, 1949Earthquake · M 7.543 km ENE of Rasht, Tajikistan · 3,500 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- July 10, 1949Earthquake · M 6.940 km WSW of Karakenja, TajikistanUSGS
- September 22, 1930Earthquake · M 6.3Dushanbe (Stalinabad) · 175 deaths (NOAA)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.
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