Earthquake — Tajikistan

When

10 Jul 1949

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.4

Where

Tajikistan

Coordinates

39.20° N, 70.80° E

Deaths

3500

Intensity mmi

10

Depth km

16

Earthquake in present-day Tajikistan

The 1949 Khait earthquake occurred at 09:45 local time on 10 July in Gharm Oblast of the Tajik SSR of the Soviet Union. It had a magnitude of 7.5 and triggered a series of landslides that together led to 7,200 deaths.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “1949 Khait earthquake”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “séisme de Khait au Tadjikistan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “оползень, вызванный землетрясением, полностью уничтожил город Хаит (Таджикская ССР); все его жители погибли”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la República socialista Soviética Tayikistán se produce un terremoto de 7,5 y un deslizamiento de tierra que dejan un saldo de 7.200 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page