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 ISC Event Agency     Origin time         Lat     Lon Depth       Magnitude   Article_total      Event code
    897583    ISC 1948-10-05 20:12:09   38.04   58.39  15.0   Ms(ISC) = 7.4              15    ASHGABAT1948

Marshall, N., Ou, Q., Begenjev, G., Bergman, E., Bezmenov, Y., Dodds, N., Gruetzner, C., Hudson, T., Pierce, I., Mirzin, R., Rhodes, E., Walker, R.T. and Wordsworth, P., 2024. Seismotectonic aspects of the Ms 7.3 1948 October 5 Aşgabat (Ashgabat) earthquake, Türkmenistan: right-lateral rupture across multiple fault segments, and continuing urban hazard, Geophys. J. Int., 237, 1, 315-338, DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggad488

Sidorin, A.Y., 2019. Effects and lessons of the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake, Seismic Instruments, 55, 3, 271-282, DOI: 10.3103/S0747923919030113

Sidorin, A.Y., 2019. A Look at the 1988 Spitak Earthquake in the Light of Lessons Learned from the 1948 Ashgabat Catastrophe, Izv. Atmos. Oceanic Phys., 55, 11, 1774-1786, DOI: 10.1134/s0001433819110148

Hollingsworth, J., Jackson, J., Walker, R., Reza Gheitanchi, M. and Javad Bolourchi, M., 2006. Strike-slip faulting, rotation, and along-strike elongation in the Kopeh Dagh mountains, NE Iran, Geophys. J. Int., 166, 3, 1161-1177, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246x.2006.02983.x

Balakina, L.M. and Moskvina, A.G., 2005. Seismogenic zones of the trans-Caspian region: Characteristics of sources of the largest earthquakes. I. The Ashkhabad earthquake of 1948, Izv. Phys. Solid Earth, 41, 10, 775-797.

Sholpo, V.N., Reisner, G.I. and Rogozhin, E.A., 2004. Seismotectonic ideas of Academician G.A. Gamburtsev, Izv. Phys. Solid Earth, 40, 5, 414-424.

Jackson, J.A. and McKenzie, D., 1988. The relationship between plate motions and seismic moment tensors, and the rates of active deformation in the Mediterranean and Middle East, Geophys. J. Int., 93, 1, 45-73, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1988.tb01387.x

Jackson, J.A. and McKenzie, D., 1984. Active tectonics of the Alpine--Himalayan Belt between western Turkey and Pakistan, Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 77, 1, 185-264, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246x.1984.tb01931.x

Chandra, U., 1984. Focal mechanism solutions for earthquakes in Iran, Phys. Earth planet. Interiors, 34, 1-2, 9-16, DOI: 10.1016/0031-9201(84)90080-3

Abe, K., 1981. Magnitudes of large shallow earthquakes from 1904 to 1980, Phys. Earth planet. Interiors, 27, 1, 72-92, DOI: 10.1016/0031-9201(81)90088-1

Tchalenko, J.S., 1975. Seismicity and structure of the Kopet Dagh (Iran, U.S.S.R.), Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, Ser. A, 278, 1275, 1-28, DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1975.0019

McKenzie, D., 1972. Active Tectonics of the Mediterranean Region, Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 30, 2, 109-185, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1972.tb02351.x

Cieslewicz, W.J., 1970. Soviet earthquake studies, The Mines Magazine 60, 4, 4-9.

Shirokova, E.I., 1967. General features in the orientation of principal stresses in earthquake foci in the Mediterranean - Asian seismic belt, Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. Geof. (in Russian) 1, 22-36.

Rustanovich, D.N., 1963. The mechanism of the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake from data secured by geophysical investigations, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 153, 86-89.