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 The Köpet Dag, Kopet Dagh, or Koppeh Dagh ( tk, Köpetdag; fa, کپه‌داغ), also known as the Turkmen-Khorasan Mountain Range, is a mountain range on the border between Turkmenistan and Iran that extends about along the border southeast o ...

area of Iran and caused up to 3,800 casualties along the Turkmenistan-Iran 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 Bojnord ( fa, ; also romanized Bojnūrd, Bujnūrd, Bojnoord, Bojnord or Bujnurd), known in the Middle Ages as Buzanjird, is the capital city of North Khorasan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and al ...

. 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 Ashgabat or Asgabat ( tk, Aşgabat, ; fa, عشق‌آباد, translit='Ešqābād, formerly named Poltoratsk ( rus, Полтора́цк, p=pəltɐˈratsk) between 1919 and 1927), is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan. It lie ...

, Turkmenistan. Surface faulting occurred along the Baghan-Germab fault for a length of .

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* Koppeh Dagh Earthquake, 1929 Earthquakes in Iran Koppeh Dagh Earthquake, 1929 20th century in Iran History of Razavi Khorasan Province History of North Khorasan Province Earthquakes in Turkmenistan Earthquakes in the Soviet Union 1929 in the Soviet Union May 1929 events 1929 disasters in Iran 1929 disasters in the Soviet Union {{Asia-earthquake-stub

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