A strong earthquake with a magnitude of more than 7.0 struck late today on the Kyrgyzstan-China border and could even be felt in New Delhi, India, 1,400 kilometres away. In neighbouring Kazakhstan, authorities confirmed that the quake was felt with 6.7, and in the capital Almaty, residents came out of their homes and gathered in the streets despite low temperatures (as low as minus 10°C), some even dressed in just pyjamas.
The quake struck at a depth of about 10 kilometres at around 2:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday (18:00 CET on Monday) with its epicentre about 130 km northwest of the Chinese town of Aykol, in the Xinjiang Autonomous Province. Several aftershocks with a magnitude of more than 5 on the Richter scale were felt in Uzbekistan as well.
Given the difficult communications in the quake-affected region, no casualties or damage have yet been reported in Kyrgyzstan or China, but experts from the prestigious United States Geological Survey (USGS) warn that “significant damage and potentially widespread disaster are likely”.
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