6. 1948 Ashgabat earthquake
The earthquake , which occurred on the night
of 5 to 6 October 1948 at 1:14 local time in Ashgabat ( Turkmenistan SSR , Soviet Union ) . The strength of the tremors reached 10 on the Richter scale . Even in Moscow recorded upheaval zemli.Po various estimates, have died from 60 to 110 thousand people - more than half of Ashhabada.Lish in 2010, the President of Turkmenistan said that the earthquake in 1948 claimed the lives of 176,000 people. Since 1995, on October 6 in the country it is the Day of Remembrance .