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Disasters with highest death tolls

1948 Ashgabat Earthquake

Wednesday Oct 6, 1948 at 01:12:00 AM
Turkmen SSR, Soviet Union (now Turkmenistan)

The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake occurred on 6 October with a surface wave magnitude of 7.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). The shock occurred in Turkmenistan near Ashgabat The earthquake at 1:12 AM. Media sources vary on the number of the casualties, from 10,000 to 110,000, equivalent to almost 10% of the Turkmen SSR's population at the time.


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