2000 Turkmenistan earthquake

Earthquake in Turkmenistan Events February 2025 January 2025 2000 Turkmenistan earthquake Turkmenistan 2000-12-06 17:11:08 1742774 iscgem1742774 2000 12 06 22:11:08 TMT (UTC+5) w y 7.0s y 7.5 30 km on 39.48 54.82 region:TM_type:event inline,title Oblique-slip Balkan Region, Turkmenistan and Baku, Azerbaijan 7 6 ≥w 4.0 (as of 10/12/2000) 11 fatalities, "dozens" injured A w 7.0 earthquake struck Balkan Region, Turkmenistan on 6 December 2000, at 17:11:08 UTC (22:11 TMT). The epicentre was located near the Balkan Mountains in the west of the country.M 7.0 - 37 km E of Balkanabat, Turkmenistan 2000 usp000a5m7 Tectonic setting Turkmenistan lies at the northern edge of the zone of complex tectonics caused by the continuing collision between the Arabian plate and the Eurasian plate. The main structure in the Caspian Sea is the Apsheron Sill, a zone of active subduction. The trend of the Apsheron sill is quite oblique to the overall plate motion and this results in significant amounts of right lateral strike-slip along this structure in an overall transpressional setting. Onshore, the motion along the Apsheron sill is transferred to the Ashgabat Fault, another right lateral strike-slip fault, across a large restraining bend.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328854399 An integrated Geological Model for the Greater Cheleken Area, Central Caspian Basin, Turkmenistan; Complez Synsedimentary Transcurrent Faulting and compartmentalization in Plio-Pleistocene Calstic Reservoirs Van Dijk J. Ajayi A.T. 2018 Society of Petroleum Engineers 4 April 2020 Eid T. Eldali M. Ellen H. Guney H. Hashem M. Knispel R. Rouis L. Santoni S. Earthquake The focal mechanism for this event indicates that it was the result of oblique reverse faulting on one of two possible faults, either northwest–southeast or west–east trending. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the International Seismological Centre (ISC) put the magnitude of the earthquake at w 7.0, while the China Earthquake Administration (CEA) measured the event at l 7.4Fresh tremors felt after strong Turkmen earthquake https://reliefweb.int/report/turkmenistan/fresh-tremors-felt-after-strong-turkmen-earthquake Reuters 7 December 2000 24 January 2025 15 January 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20260115111820/https://reliefweb.int/report/turkmenistan/fresh-tremors-felt-after-strong-turkmen-earthquake live and the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED) said that the earthquake had a magnitude of s 7.5.A Summary of Earthquakes in 2000 https://www.seced.org.uk/images/newsletters/Newsletter%20vol%2015%20no%201.pdf April 2001 Galloway David Walker Alice Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics 24 January 2025 8 15 10 December 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20241210102721/https://www.seced.org.uk/images/newsletters/Newsletter%20vol%2015%20no%201.pdf live The maximum shaking intensity of VII (Very Strong) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale was observed in Balkanabat and Türkmenbaşy, with intensity V (Moderate) tremors felt at Gyzylarbat, as well as in Nukus, Uzbekistan and Baku, Azerbaijan; shaking was also felt throughout parts of Russia, including Moscow, as well as in Armenia and northern Iran. By 10 December, six aftershocks above w 4.0 were detected by the USGS.USGS earthquake catalog United States Geological Survey https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=38.73705,53.58032&extent=40.17897,56.92017&range=search&baseLayer=terrain&timeZone=utc&search=%7B%22name%22:%22Search%20Results%22,%22params%22:%7B%22endtime%22:%222000-12-27T17:11:06.400Z%22,%22latitude%22:39.566,%22longitude%22:54.799,%22maxradiuskm%22:250,%22minmagnitude%22:4,%22starttime%22:%222000-11-15T17:11:06.400Z%22%7D%7D 24 January 2025 22 December 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20251222230459/https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=38.73705,53.58032&extent=40.17897,56.92017&range=search&baseLayer=terrain&timeZone=utc&search=%7B%22name%22:%22Search%20Results%22,%22params%22:%7B%22endtime%22:%222000-12-27T17:11:06.400Z%22,%22latitude%22:39.566,%22longitude%22:54.799,%22maxradiuskm%22:250,%22minmagnitude%22:4,%22starttime%22:%222000-11-15T17:11:06.400Z%22%7D%7D live Impact Chinese state television reported 11 deaths and five injuries, while Russian news site Gazeta.Ru said that four deaths and eight injuries occurred in Balkanabat, citing local residents.Turkmenistan: Earthquake Causes Heavy Damage https://reliefweb.int/report/turkmenistan/turkmenistan-earthquake-causes-heavy-damage?OpenDocument=&emid=EQ-2000-0810-TKM ReliefWeb 7 December 2000 24 January 2025 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 23 December 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20251223172235/https://reliefweb.int/report/turkmenistan/turkmenistan-earthquake-causes-heavy-damage?OpenDocument=&emid=EQ-2000-0810-TKM live Dozens of people were injured and many were hospitalized due to stress and panic induced by the tremors, and numerous buildings suffered minor damage.Turkmenistan - Earthquake OCHA Situation Report No. 1 https://reliefweb.int/report/turkmenistan/turkmenistan-earthquake-ocha-situation-report-no-1 ReliefWeb 8 December 2000 24 January 2025 OCHA 23 December 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20251223132327/https://reliefweb.int/report/turkmenistan/turkmenistan-earthquake-ocha-situation-report-no-1 live Several buildings reportedly collapsed in Ashgabat. In Baku, Azerbaijan, many people fled their homes in panic.Türkmenistan'da 8 büyüklüğünde deprem https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/dunya/turkmenistanda-8-buyuklugunde-deprem-39204677 24 January 2025 7 December 2000 tr Hürriyet 1 July 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200701071959/https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/dunya/turkmenistanda-8-buyuklugunde-deprem-39204677 live See also Earth sciences Turkmenistan List of earthquakes in 2000 1948 Ashgabat earthquake 2000 Baku earthquake References ISC-GEM Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue (1900–2009) http://www.isc.ac.uk/iscgem/index.php ISC 2015 International Seismological Centre Version 2.0 19 January 2020 25 November 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20161125091901/http://www.isc.ac.uk/iscgem/index.php live PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog https://earthquake.usgs.gov/static/lfs/data/pager/catalogs/ September 4, 2009 United States Geological Survey Version 2008_06.1 19 January 2020 17 July 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200717083128/https://earthquake.usgs.gov/static/lfs/data/pager/catalogs/ live External links 1742774 Category:Earthquakes in Turkmenistan Turkmenistan earthquake Earthquake Earthquake