What the records say
- When
- 18 Feb 1911
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.2
- Where
- Tajikistan
- Coordinates
- 38.29° N, 72.60° E
- Deaths
- 318
- Depth km
- 15
1911 Sarez earthquake
Natural disaster in Tajikistan
The 1911 Sarez earthquake occurred at 18:41 UTC on 18 February in the central Pamir Mountains in the Rushon District of eastern Tajikistan. It had an estimated magnitude of 7.4 on the surface-wave magnitude scale and a maximum felt intensity of about IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale.
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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 “an earthquake in Pamir Mountains blocking the Murghab River by a landslide led to the formation of Sarez Lake”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “séisme de Sarez, dans les montagnes du Pamir”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page