The 1885 Belovodoskoe earthquake occurred on 2 August, in the Chüy Region, Russian Turkestan (now Kyrgyzstan), with a moment magnitude of 6.7–7.6.

It also initiated rockfalls and landslides, some of which temporarily blocked the Sokuluk and Aksu rivers.

In 2014, Bindi and others determined a moment magnitude of 6.7±0.4 based on an equation to calculate from seismic intensity data on the Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale.

[2] The earthquake may have produced uplift across a riverbed, expressed as a 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) scarp, discovered following a topographic survey finding published in 2001.

[2] Two villages from Kara-Balta and Belovodskoye were damaged, and 54 people died from the earthquake.