Tajikistan
Pamir mountains, near the border with Kyrgyzstan · 139 km south-southeast of Osh
- Date3 Nov 2026
- Origin time21:34:09 UTC · 01:34 Yerevan (4 Nov)
- Depth10 km
- Distance to stations2,300–2,530 km
Recorded by all CHARNET stations in Armenia
At 01:34 Yerevan time on the night of 4 November, a magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck Tajikistan, in the Pamir mountains near the border with Kyrgyzstan, about 139 km south-southeast of the city of Osh (EMSC). The epicentre lies more than 2,300 kilometres from Armenia, yet less than five minutes later the first waves reached our stations, and all CHARNET stations recorded them.
The first to arrive is the P-wave: it travelled through the Earth’s mantle at an average speed of about 8 km per second and reached Antarashat, our closest station in the south, 4 minutes 41 seconds after the shock. The slower S-wave followed about four minutes later; it shakes the ground sideways, so it stands out best on the horizontal components, while the P-wave is clearest on the vertical one. All three are shown below. Listen and watch how the waves arrived at Antarashat.
Three components: vertical (Z), east–west and north–south, 0.5–5 Hz, about 11 minutes of record (21:37:50–21:49:10 UTC), shown 20× faster; the sound is the vertical component. Blue — the P-wave, gold — the S-wave, both read from the record. Times after the origin. The P-wave is strongest on the vertical component, the S-wave on the horizontal ones.
- 4 min 41 sThe first P-wave reaches Antarashat (ANTS), our closest station, 2,317 km away
- 8 min 36 sThe slower S-wave arrives at the same station, almost four minutes later
Event parameters: EMSC · Records: CHARNET, IGES
The Pamir is one of the places where the collision of the Indian plate with Eurasia is felt most strongly, and earthquakes there are frequent. Armenia lies on the same long belt of collision mountains, where Arabia pushes into Eurasia. How these plates move can be explored on our interactive page How the Earth moves.