Earthquakes in Uzbekistan, 1927–2026
From 1927 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, three times, most recently on March 19, 1984 (22 km NNW of Gazli, 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).
What the record holds
The deadliest was not the strongest: an earthquake on April 26, 1966 (Tashkent), for which NOAA records 10 deaths. 4 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 7 on March 19, 1984 (22 km NNW of Gazli, Uzbekistan).
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
- April 26, 1966EarthquakeTashkent · 10 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- January 11, 1943Earthquake · M 6.312 km NNE of Sho‘rchi, UzbekistanUSGS
- December 18, 1937Earthquake · M 6.454 km SE of Zhabagly, KazakhstanUSGS
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