Tajikistan was jolted¹ by a strong earthquake.

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) recorded the magnitude of the quake at 5.9 on the Richter scale.

The earthquake's epicenter was located at a depth of 16 kilometers beneath the earth's surface.

In another development, a magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck on Sunday near Meiktila, a small city in central Myanmar, according to the US Geological Survey.