1948 Ashgabat earthquake | |
---|---|
Total costs | N/A |
Deaths | 110000 |
The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake (Turkmen: 1948 Ашгабат ертитремеси, romanized: 1948 Aşgabat ýertitremesi; Russian: Ашхабадское землетрясение 1948 года, romanized: Ashkhabadskoye zemletryasenie 1948 goda) 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 USSR's media. Historians tend to agree that the ban on reporting the extent of the casualties and damage did not allow the Soviet government to allocate enough financial resources to adequately respond. It was the strongest earthquake recorded in Turkmenistan.
Source: Wikipedia 1977 Karachi Floods | |
---|---|
Total costs | N/A |
Deaths | 848 |
The 1943 Chennai floods occurred during the annual northeast monsoon in Madras (now Chennai) in...
Kursha-2 (Russian: Ку́рша-2), named so after a road sign, was an industrial community in the...
The devastating eruption of Oshima–Ōshima began on the 18th of August, 1741 and ended on May 1...
Of the many eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, a major stratovolcano in southern Italy, the most famous...