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Earthquake Memories: Oral Histories of Tremors
The earth moves quietly at first, almost imperceptibly. A low vibration, a shudder through walls and ground, then the sudden sway that makes people step into doorways or rush outside. In Tajikistan, earthquakes are part of life in a seismically active landscape where mountain-building and faulting shape not only geology but memory. For many communities,…
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Dust Storms from the South: Transboundary Skies
In southern Tajikistan the air sometimes thickens into haze. It comes not from local chimneys or urban traffic but from the south, rising from deserts beyond the border. Dust storms lift across Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, carried by wind into valleys of Khatlon and across the Amu Darya. These storms are transboundary events, reminders that…
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Lake Sarez: The Sleeping Giant
Lake Sarez begins quietly, with stillness. Its turquoise surface stretches across the narrow Bartang Valley in eastern Tajikistan, framed by steep slopes that rise like walls. The lake is beautiful, almost unnaturally so. But beneath that calm lies a story of sudden catastrophe, geological upheaval, and an uncertain future. Sarez is a lake born in…
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Hazards of Avalanches: Winter Geography of Risk
Snow piles deep in the high valleys. Ridges are capped in white. In winter, the silence presses on slopes until a crack, a slide, a roar breaks it. Avalanches are not myths here, but real events, part of the mountain’s language. In the Pamirs, winters carry risk- not just cold, but motion, ground collapse, snow…
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Earthquakes in the Pamirs: Living on Shifting Ground
The ground never quite sleeps in the Pamirs. Beneath the high ridges and folded valleys, plates press, faults slip, and tremors ripple through villages clinging to slopes. Earthquakes here are not abstract- they are geography in motion, lived in daily cracks, remembered in walls that lean, in stories passed down after each shaking night. To…
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Landslides in Rasht & GBAO: The Slopes Write Their Own Story
Rain begins in the high ridges before sunrise, falling first in whispers, then in cascades of sound. Drops pound the roofs of villages in Rasht and Gorno-Badakhshan. Slopes groan. Where soil is loose, roots thin, and water has soaked deep, there is momentum- not in the way of rivers but in earth itself shifting. In…
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Vulnerable Basins
The sound comes first—a low rumble that grows into a roar. By the time villagers hear it clearly, the brown torrent is already spilling down the mountainside, carrying stones, branches, and the unmistakable smell of wet earth. In Tajikistan floods and mudflows are not rare events. They are seasonal realities, woven into life in valleys…
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