Azerbaijan to send humanitarian aid to Kyrgyzstan
Azerbaijan will send humanitarian aid to Kyrgyzstan as the country was hit by a destructive earthquake in November.
The Emergency Situations Ministry said that it will send humanitarian aid valued at $1 million manats to Kyrgyzstan’s Osh province in accordance with the instructions of Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev.
The Kyrgyz government has appealed to the Azerbaijani government asking for assistance to eliminate the consequences of the natural disaster.
An earthquake of MPV 6.2 magnitude has struck Kyrgyzstan on November 17, said the Seismological Experimental-Methodical Expedition of the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Education of Kazakhstan.
The quake's tremors of 3.0 magnitude were felt in Kazakhstan as well - in cities of Shymkent and Taraz, the Merke village. The city of Almaty felt the magnitude 2.0 tremors.
Also, three earthquakes hit Kyrgyzstan on November 21. The first earthquake measuring MPV 5.1 hit Kyrgyzstan at 06:15, the second earthquake measuring MPV 3.6 was recorded at 06:46, while the third quake measuring MPV 4.1 occurred at 08:35.
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