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1948 Ashgabat earthquake

1948 CE · Turkmenistan, Asia · Disaster

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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