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Most regions of Turkmenistan are not characterized by high seismicity, but some of its areas are still characterized by high seismicity. The famous destructive Ashgabat earthquake, which occurred on October 5, 1948 in the Kara-Dag region, is well known. In the paper compares the distributions of earthquake hypocenters in Turkmenistan obtained from the ISC catalog data for the period from 1964 to 2021 and the results of recalculation of hy-pocenters according to the ISC bulletin data for the same period. In total, the ISC catalog for the specified period contains about 1000 events with a magnitude greater than 2.5. The authors recalcu-lated the hypocenters of slightly more than 350 earthquakes. It is shown that the depths of earth-quake foci in the areas under consideration can be located at depths of up to 600 km, while according to the ISC catalog, the maximum focal depths do not exceed 100 km.