mini-earthquake

Shymkent in an earthquake region and last night we had a very mini-earthquake. Since generally they only have little tremors it wasn't scary, just quite interesting to be shaking without willing it yourself to do so. But Central Asia in general does risk having a more serious earthquake- in 1966 300,000 people were left homeless in Tashkent (2 hours drive south of here) due to an earthquake 7.5 on the Richter scale.