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M7.3 - Almaty (Vernyy), Kazakhstan (Turkestan, Russia), 1887
Almaty (Alma-Ata, Vernyy) destroyed; all but one of nearly 1,800 brick buildings were destroyed or severely damaged. Many people survived because a strong foreshock occurred 5 minutes before, waking everyone and forcing many from their homes. Actual casualty figures are not given. The quake occurred in the Ile Alatauy (Zailiyskiy Alatau) Mountains south of the city, where many fissures, landslides and mudslides were observed. It was felt in present-day Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and China from Ayagoz (Sergiopol') to Kashi (Kashgar) and from Tashkent to Urumqi (Urumchi).
From N.V. Kondorskaya and N.V. Shebalin, eds., New Catalog of Strong Earthquakes in the U.S.S.R. from Ancient Times through 1977, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center Report SE-31, Boulder, Colorado, 1982. (Update and English translation of Noviy Katalog Sil'nykh Zemlyetryaseniy na Territoriy SSSR s Drevneyshikh Vremyen do 1975 g., USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1977.)
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