An earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale struck on Tuesday Badakhshan Mountainous area, southeast of Tajikistan.
The European Mediterranean Seismology Center said in a statement that the earthquake center is 77 km from the province of Murghob near the border with China, at a depth of 40 km.
There have been no reports of causalities or material damage so far.
Tajikistan witnesses many earthquakes and landslides, most notably the 5.3 magnitude earthquake that struck the mountainous region of Badakhshan in central Tajikistan in January 2010, which caused the displacement of about 20,000 people.
