DUSHANBE, January 6, 2016, Asia-Plus – By order of the governor of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), Shodikhon Jamshed, physicians from the regional hospital have visited all villages in the Bartang Valley of the Rushan district, which were affected the most by a devastating earthquake that struck the region on December 7, 2015.
Ms. Niloufar Aslmashoyeva, a spokesperson for the GBAO regional administration, says physicians have examined all the earthquake victims and provided them with all necessary medicines.
We will recall that a magnitude-7.2 temblor occurred in Tajikistan’s Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) on December 7, killing two persons and injuring ten people. The Geophysics Survey of Tajikistan’s Academy of Sciences says the epicenter was 93 kilometers west of the settlement of Murgab, the administrative center of GBAO’s Murgab district, 138 kilometers northeast of Khorog, the capital of Gorno Badakhshan and 357 kilometers southeast of Dushanbe.
The Bartang Valley in the Rushan district was the most hit area. According to figures from the Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defense under the Government of Tajikistan, 1,327 houses were damaged or destroyed and 7,962 people were displaced as of December 11. Critical infrastructure, including roads, medical facilities, hydro-power stations, and schools also incurred damage.
50 hectares have been allotted to the earth-affected residents of Bartang for housing in the Basid jamoat of Rushan. Construction of new residential buildings for the quake-affected people will start in the spring.
