Gazli
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Gazli Газли |
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 Uzbekistan
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| Province: | Buxoro | ||
| District: | Romitan | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 8 ′ N , 63 ° 27 ′ E | ||
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| Height : | 186 m | ||
| Residents : | 12,268 (2009) | ||
Gazli ( Cyrillic Газли , in German also Gasli ) is a city in the Uzbek province of Buxoro , 85 km west-northwest of the provincial capital Bukhara in the Romitan district . According to the 1989 census, the city had 8,500 inhabitants at the time; According to a calculation for 2009, the population is 12,268.
Gazli is located in the southern part of the Kyzylkum desert and was only founded in 1958 when large reserves of natural gas - an estimated 500 billion m³ - were discovered in this area . There are many technicians, scientists and engineers among the city's residents. Gazli is the entry point of a several thousand kilometers long natural gas pipeline that was opened in 1963 and leads to Chelyabinsk . The natural gas produced in Gazli consists of 96% methane .
In 1976 (April and May) and 1984 (March) a series of three earthquakes occurred in Gazli , each of which had a value above 7 on the surface wave magnitude scale .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: bevoelkerungsstatistik.de
- ^ Klaus Pander: Central Asia . DuMont Reiseverlag, 2005. ISBN 3-7701-3680-2 ; P. 190
- ^ Edward Allworth: Central Asia, 130 years of Russian dominance . Duke University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8223-1521-1 ; P. 336
- ^ Judith Peltz: Discovering Uzbekistan . Trescher Verlag, 2007. ISBN 3-89794-119-8 ; P. 22
- ↑ Cliff Frohlich, Scott D. Davis: Texas earthquakes . University of Texas Press, 2003. ISBN 0-292-72551-5 ; P. 75