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The Associated Press
Sunday, January 3, 2010; 3:56 AM
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan -- Officials in Tajikistan say 20,000 people have been left homeless by an earthquake that hit a mountainous region of the impoverished Central Asian nation.
The Emergency Situations and Civil Defense Committee says no deaths have been reported.
The earthquake measuring a magnitude of 5.1 occurred Saturday in the Pamir Mountains.
The emergency committee said Sunday that it damaged or destroyed houses in several villages in the Gorno-Badakhshansky region.
Earthquakes are fairly common in the mountains of the former Soviet republic.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/03/AR2010010300295.html
RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service
Budapest, Hungary
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?glide=EQ-20100103-24409-TJK&cat=dis&lang=eng
Province of Gorno-Badakhshan, Vanchsky district
Some 20,000 people were left homeless by an earthquake which hit Tajikistan's mountainous Gorno-Badakhshan province, a local administration spokesman has said. The earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale took place on Saturday and affected two locations in the province's Vanchsky district, in Tajikistan's Pamir Mountains, the spokesman said. "Several dozens houses inhabited by some 20,000 people have been destroyed completely or partly," he said. Rock falls and mudslides caused by the quake blocked a road linking the Vanchsky district with the province's administrative center of Khorog, he added.
