The 1911 Kebin earthquake, or 1911 Chon-Kemin earthquake, struck Russian Turkestan on 3 January. Registering at a 7.7 magnitude, it destroyed more than 770 buildings (which was almost all of the city) in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and resulted in of surface faulting in the valleys of Chon–Kemin, Chilik and Chon-Aksu.