The most devastating earthquakes in the history of the USSR
The most devastating earthquakes in the history of the USSR David Turnley/Corbis/Getty Images The 1988 Spitak earthquake in Armenia exploded with the force of ten Hiroshimas. In the space of 30 seconds, the city was literally wiped off the face of the Earth. Destruction of Ashgabat Stanislav Korytnikov/Sputnik On Oct. 6, 1948, at about 1am, the capital of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR), Ashgabat, was shaken by powerful tremors measuring 7–10 on the Richter scale. The fragile, one-story earthen houses that comprised most of the city’s architecture...
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