The Tajik emergency situations committee said on Saturday, that an earthquake in Tajikistan killed five people.
European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) noted that the epicentre of the quake 165 kilometres northeast of the capital city of Dushanbe.
EMSC also added that the quake of magnitude 5.9 struck 27 km (17 miles) east of Rasht in Tajikistan.
It was at a depth of 40 km and was also about 153 km south east of Khujand, Tajikistan, according to the EMSC.
On a separate note, the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG) announced, July 4, that a 4.4 magnitude quake hit Northeast of Marsa Matruh.
In a statement, NRIAG said that the earthquake took place at 19:30 pm (Cairo Local Time).
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