While USGS reported that 6.1 earthquake south of Russia -- KYRGYZSTAN it's even plate movement into Europe
next , however, July 20th, 2011, AP report show that there seemed have some danger situation: “The people were scared and
went out onto the streets. It lasted for a few seconds. There are cracks on the
ceiling and the paint has started to fall off in my home,” said Abdullah, who
did not want to give his family name.
The quake struck the border
region at a depth of just 9.2 kilometers, rocking Fergana, a city of some
200,000 residents just over the border in neighboring Uzbekistan. see more detail in below.
BISHKEK—An earthquake measuring 6.2 Wednesday rocked the remote border region
of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, triggering panic even in cities but there were no
immediate reports of casualties, officials said.
The quake hit at 1:35 am (1935 GMT Tuesday) some 400 kilometers (250 miles)
southwest of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, with the epicenter 42 km southwest of
the Uzbek town of Fergana, the US Geological Survey said.
The Kyrgyz emergencies ministry said that the epicenter was 52 km from the
main regional town of Batken and just 125 km from Osh, the main city in the
south of Kyrgyzstan.
The local administration said 11 villages in the Batken region were without
electricity after a transformer was knocked out but there were no reports of
casualties even though inhabitants reported damage to their homes.
However the full extent of the damage in the remote Fergana Valley region may
only become apparent later when a special team dispatched by the Kyrgyz
authorities finishes its work in the area.
“It’s clear that there will be damage, the earthquake was just too strong,”
said the head of the seismological institute at the Kyrgyz academy of sciences,
Kanat Abdrakhmatov.
Residents of Osh said that that the quake caused panic in the city while
tremors were also felt as far away as Bishkek itself.
“We were woken up by a noise and strong jolts which lasted for about 40
seconds. The house began to shake,” said Albek Seitov, a resident of Osh.
“I thought it was a dream, a nightmare. I went out in the street like my
neighbors. Everyone is afraid, panicking,” he said.
The quake struck the border region at a depth of just 9.2 kilometers, rocking
Fergana, a city of some 200,000 residents just over the border in neighboring
Uzbekistan.
“The people were scared and went out onto the streets. It lasted for a few
seconds. There are cracks on the ceiling and the paint has started to fall off
in my home,” said Abdullah, who did not want to give his family name.
Another Fergana resident, Sukhrob, said the tremors had stopped, but people
were frightened of returning home.
“I haven’t seen houses destroyed. But the people are still outside, they’re
afraid of going home,” he said.
The Fergana Valley is an area shared uneasily by Kyrgyz, Tajik and Uzbek
ethnic groups and the scene of periodic violence and unrest since the 1991
Soviet collapse. --------------------------
Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states (along with Turkey, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan). Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and People's Republic of China to the east. Its capital and largest city is Bishkek.
"Kyrgyz", is believed to have been derived from the Turkic word for "forty", in reference to the forty clans of Manas, a legendary hero who united forty regional clans against the Uyghers. Literally it means We are forty. At the time, in the early 9th century AD, the Uyghers dominated much of Central Asia (including Kyrgyzstan), Mongolia, and parts of Russia and China.
The 40-ray sun on the flag of Kyrgyzstan is a reference to those same forty tribes and the graphical element in the sun's center depicts the wooden crown of a yurt – a portable dwelling traditionally used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia.
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