Uzbekistan
Earthquakes in Uzbekistan, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 18 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in Uzbekistan. None reached magnitude 6: the strongest was a magnitude 5.3 on May 12, 2022 (24 km SW of Boysun, Uzbekistan).
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 4.7 on October 13 (9 km NE of Boshkengash, Tajikistan). The strongest: magnitude 4.7 on September 21 (92 km ENE of Khorugh, Tajikistan).
The events
- May 19, 2026Earthquake · M 4.937 km NW of Gazli, UzbekistanUSGS
- May 12, 2022Earthquake · M 5.324 km SW of Boysun, UzbekistanUSGS
- August 11, 2021Earthquake · M 4.946 km NNW of Gazli, UzbekistanUSGS
- September 7, 2020Earthquake · M 4.9121 km N of Nurota, UzbekistanUSGS
- September 29, 2017Earthquake · M 5.136 km SSE of Jizzax, UzbekistanUSGS
Good to know
- An event counts for Uzbekistan 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 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