This was reported by TASS with reference to the seismological experimental and methodological expedition of the Kazakh Ministry of Emergency Situations.

The earthquake was recorded 279 km southeast of Alma-Ata.

The source lay at a depth of 15 km.

“A magnitude 2 tremor was felt in a Kazakh city,” the report says.

Earlier, the death toll from earthquakes in Turkey reached 44,374.

Also a day earlier, an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 occurred in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk near the Kuril Islands.