The 1966 Tashkent earthquake<\/strong> occurred on 26 April in the Uzbek SSR. It had a magnitude of 5.1<\/strong> with an epicenter in central Tashkent<\/strong> at a depth of 3\u20138 kilometers. The earthquake caused massive destruction to Tashkent<\/strong>, destroying most of the buildings in the city, killing between 15 and 200 people and leaving 300,000 homeless. <\/p>\n Following the disaster, most of the historic parts of Tashkent<\/strong> had destroyed and the city rebuilt, modeled on Soviet architectural styles<\/strong>..Soviet authorities created an Institute of seismology<\/strong> in order to forecast future earthquakes<\/p>\n Much of this is due to a devastating earthquake<\/strong> the epicenter of which was smack in the middle of Tashkent<\/strong>. While there’s not a huge loss of life, much of the city flattened. On April 26, 1966, a powerful earthquake struck Tashkent<\/strong> at 5:23 a.m.<\/strong><\/em> The quake had a magnitude of only 5.2, but because the seismic activity was so deep [from 3 to 8 kilometers below the ground] it was seismically ranked somewhere between an 8 and a 9 on the earth\u2019s surface and caused considerable damage<\/strong> to structures in the city\u2019s center. The center of destruction<\/strong> concentrated in an area of around 10 square kilometer.. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earthquake Memorial – Tashkent The 1966 Tashkent earthquake occurred on 26 April [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1685,1595,1588,1638],"tags":[2069,2070,2071,1401,1402,1399],"class_list":["post-173577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities-en-ca","category-central-asia-en-ca","category-destination-info-en-ca","category-sight-seeings-en-ca","tag-destruction-to-tashkent-en-ca","tag-earthquake-memorial-en-ca","tag-history-of-earthquake-memorial-en-ca","tag-sightseeing-at-tashkent-en-ca","tag-sightseeing-at-uzbekistan-en-ca","tag-tashkent-en-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.travelsmantra.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}History Of Earthquake Memorial<\/h2>\n