Earthquakes in Uzbekistan through history
From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 13 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more in Uzbekistan. 3 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest was a magnitude 7.4 on October 21, 1907 (45 km SE of Panjakent, 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 13 (9 km NE of Boshkengash, Tajikistan).
What the record holds
The deadliest was not the strongest: an earthquake on November 23, 838 (Fergana), for which NOAA records 15,000 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 14 here, back to AD 838. NOAA records deaths in 5 of the events here, 33,890 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 7 on March 19, 1984 (22 km NNW of Gazli, Uzbekistan). NOAA’s record here begins on November 23, 838 with an earthquake (Fergana). It grows thinner going back: 4 of the 14 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on.
The events
- March 19, 1984Earthquake · M 7.022 km NNW of Gazli, UzbekistanUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- May 17, 1976Earthquake · M 7.027 km N of Gazli, UzbekistanUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- April 8, 1976Earthquake · M 7.033 km NE of Gazli, UzbekistanUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- October 21, 1907Earthquake · M 7.445 km SE of Panjakent, Tajikistan · 12,000 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
- December 16, 1902Earthquake · M 6.4Andizhan · 4,880 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- June 942Earthquake · M 6.7 (est.)BukharaNOAA NCEI
- November 23, 838EarthquakeFergana · 15,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
Good to know
- An event counts for Uzbekistan 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 Uzbekistan, 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