Magnitude 5 earthquake shakes Tajikistan.

DUSHANBE, February 28 (Itar-Tass) -- A magnitude 5.7 earthquake shook
Tajikistan at 4:20 a.m. local time (2:20 a.m. Moscow time), the Dushanbe
seismic station told Itar-Tass.
The quake focus was located 290 kilometers to the north of the capital
city of Dushanbe, on the territory of Afghanistan. Short earth tremors
were felt in Dushanbe, in the Badakhshanskaya autonomous region and in a
number of other Tajik settlements.
There were no immediate data of casualties, the country's emergencies
agency said.