A major 6.2 quake in Uzbekistan killed at least 13 people and injured 86 others, when it struck on the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border in the remote Fergana Valley region, Uzbek officials said.
The quake struck at 1:35am (with the epicentre just inside neighbouring Kyrgyzstan but 42 kilometres southwest of the Uzbek city of Fergana, the US Geological Survey said.
"As a result of the earthquake, some old buildings were destroyed in the Fergana region," the Uzbek emergencies ministry said.
It said that the quake registered 5.0 even in the capital Tashkent, some 235 kilometres away from the epicentre.
