Residents of Dushanbe felt minor tremors for several seconds, APA reports citing TASS.
According to the Seismic Forecast Monitoring Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Uzbekistan, which monitors seismic activity in Central Asia, the earthquake occurred at 2:14 a.m. Dushanbe time (0:14 a.m. Moscow time). The magnitude of the tremor at the epicenter, in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in eastern Tajikistan, was 5.3.
There are no reports of casualties or damage at this time.