1929 Kopet Dag earthquake

Earthquake centered on the Iran-Turkmenistan border February 2021 1929 Kopet Dag earthquake 1929-05-01 15:37:36 908052 iscgem908052 1929 05 01 yes 20:37:36 Iran 7.2 w y 10 km on Iran, Turkmenistan 38.12 57.74 inline,title IX Oblique-thrust 3,257–3,800 dead 1,121 injured The 1929 Kopet Dag earthquake (also called the 1929 Koppeh Dagh earthquake) took place at 15:37 UTC on 1 May with a moment magnitude of 7.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). It occurred in the Kopet Dag area of Iran and caused up to 3,800 casualties along the Iran-Turkmenistan border. More than 1,100 were injured. Damage and casualties Within the epicentral area, 3,250 people were killed. Eighty-eight villages in the region were damaged or destroyed, along with damage at Bojnourd. Aftershocks occurred for more than four years after, including one in July 1929 that killed several more people, before finally subsiding in 1933. Fifty-seven diverse locations reported damage, including casualties in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Surface faulting occurred along the Baghan-Germab fault for a length of 50 km us.https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/today/index.php?month=5&day=1&submit=View+Date https://web.archive.org/web/20120302160627/https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/today/index.php?month=5&day=1&submit=View+Date dead 2 March 2012 Today in Earthquake History: May 1 United States Geological Survey 16 July 2008 24 January 2009 See also List of earthquakes in 1929 List of earthquakes in Iran References A History of Persian Earthquakes https://books.google.com/books?id=1JkfKub5vakC N. N. Ambraseys Nicholas Ambraseys C. P. Melville 2005 Cambridge University Press 978-0521021876 78 Earthquakes and Coseismic Surface Faulting on the Iranian Plateau https://books.google.com/books?id=_ur1AgAAQBAJ M. Berberian Manuel Berberian 2014 Developments in Earth Surface Processes 1st Elsevier 978-0444632920 595 ISC-GEM Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue (1900–2009) http://www.isc.ac.uk/iscgem/index.php ISC 2015 International Seismological Centre Version 2.0 PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog https://earthquake.usgs.gov/static/lfs/data/pager/catalogs/ 4 September 2009 United States Geological Survey Version 2008_06.1 External links 908052 Koppeh Dagh Earthquake, 1929 Category:Earthquakes in Iran Koppeh Dagh Earthquake, 1929 Category:20th century in Razavi Khorasan province Category:History of North Khorasan province Category:Earthquakes in Turkmenistan Category:Earthquakes in the Soviet Union Category:1929 disasters in the Soviet Union Category:May 1929 Category:1929 disasters in Asia Category:20th-century disasters in Iran