SRINAGAR: A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Tajikistan today, US experts said, and state television said one person was killed 10 were injured.
The tremor hit at 7.50 GMT (1320 IST) some 109 km west of the town of Murghob at a depth of 28 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said.
The driver of a truck travelling along a road some 460 km east of the capital Dushanbe died as the result of a landslide triggered by the quake, state television said.
The epicentre was located in a remote area some 345 kilometres east of the capital Dushanbe, it added.
The Tajik seismological service reported that the epicentre of the quake was just 22 km from the high altitude Lake Sarez.
Sarez, formed following an earthquake in 1911 and containing some 17 cubic km of water, is considered a major threat to the region if its dams break as a result of seismic activity.
The quake was also felt in the capital of neighbouring Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan to the north, northern parts of Afghanistan to the south as well as nearby Pakistan and India, but no damage was immediately reported.
Mild tremors also reportedly felt in Kashmir, Delhi Chandigarh but there were no reports of any damage from anywhere so far. Television reports showed residents in Delhi and Srinagar rushing into the streets.
Tremors went largely unnoticed as people went about their normal business, police in the Valley said
The tremors were also felt in Pakistani capital Islamabad as well as in provincial capital of Peshawar.
In October, 272 people were killed in Pakistan, including
225 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake that shook the country.
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