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Quake hits Uzbekistan

Politics Materials 18 September 2010 10:20 (UTC +04:00)
An earthquake measuring 4 on the Richter scale hit Uzbekistan at 00:20 last night.
Quake hits Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Sept.18 / Trend, D. Azizov /

An earthquake measuring 4 on the Richter scale hit Uzbekistan at 00:20 last night.

According to the Tashkent Seismic Station, the earthquake epicenter was in 534 kilometers southeast of Tashkent in the Hindu Kush (Afghanistan), at the border of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan, where tremors hit six points on a 12-point scale.  

In the Termez city of Uzbekistan (on the border with Afghanistan and Tajikistan), the earthquake hit four points. No casualties reported.

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