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Powerful quake hits southern Kyrgyzstan

20.07.2011 [12:16]
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Baku, July 20 (AZERTAC). A powerful earthquake measuring 6.2 struck a mountainous location in southern Kyrgyzstan on the border with Uzbekistan early Wednesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

No casualties or serious damage were immediately reported from the temblor, which hit at about 1:35 a.m. local time in an area some 35 kilometers (22 miles) away from the Uzbek city of Ferghana, which has a population of more than 200,000.

In Andijan, the next largest city in Uzbekistan`s Ferghana Valley, roughly 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the epicenter, residents told The Associated Press that many people had left their homes in panic and were standing in the streets.

A duty officer at the Emergency Services Ministry in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, said he had no precise information about the fallout of the quake.