Earthquake — Turkmenistan: Ashkhabad

When

5 Oct 1948

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.2

Where

Turkmenistan

Coordinates

38.08° N, 58.36° E

Deaths

110000

Damage musd

25

Intensity mmi

10

Depth km

18

Earthquake in Turkmenistan

The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake was on 6 October with a surface-wave magnitude of 7.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), in Turkmenistan near Ashgabat. Due to censorship by the Soviet government, the event was not widely reported in the Soviet media.

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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 “1948 Ashgabat earthquake: A 7.3 earthquake near Ashgabat, Soviet Turkmenistan kills 10,000–110,000”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Das Erdbeben von Aşgabat in der Sowjetunion wird von der Propaganda Stalins heruntergespielt, die Opfer werden mit 10.000 Toten angegeben”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Произошло землетрясение магнитудой 7,3 в Ашхабаде и окружающих районах Туркменистана”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Asjabad (Turkmenistán), se registra un terremoto de 7,3 grados en la escala sismológica de Richter que deja un saldo de 178 000 víctimas (según informe de…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “土庫曼發生芮氏規模7.3地震。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page