"Central Asian earthquake kills at least 14" July 21, 2011|Associated Press
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - A powerful earthquake killed at least 14 people in a heavily populated valley in Central Asia early yesterday, emergency officials said.
Almost all the casualties were in Uzbekistan, where officials confirmed 13 deaths.
The magnitude 6.1 temblor, centered in Kyrgyzstan, hit shortly after midnight in a mountainous area some 20 miles away from the eastern Uzbek city of Ferghana, which has a population of more than 200,000. So far, no deaths have been reported in Kyrgyzstan itself....
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