Top 7 Most Deadly Earthquakes of History

 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan (1948)

Within minutes about 110,000 people were crushed or burnt to death thanks to the terrible building standards followed by this country. Well a little known country Turkmenistan (formerly a part of the Soviet Union) but the buildings were way too weak to sustain even a quake of magnitude about 6. This earthquake measure 7.3 on Richter scale. Trains were derailed, surface ruptured in northwest and southwest of Ashgabat there were some casualties even in the neighboring region of Darreh Gaz.

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