The magnitude 5.1 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Tashkent_earthquake" id="mw-w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1966 Tashkent earthquake">Tashkent earthquake</a> affects the largest city in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Central_Asia" id="mw_A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet Central Asia">Soviet Central Asia</a> with a maximum <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik_scale" id="mw_Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale">MSK intensity</a> of VII (<i id="mw_g">Very strong</i>). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkent" id="mw_w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tashkent">Tashkent</a> is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.