ABAKAN, Russia, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit south-central Siberia Thursday, causing some damage but no reported casualties, the Russian emergency ministry said.
The epicenter of the moderate quake, which struck at 8:35 a.m. Moscow time (12:35 a.m. EST), was about 105 miles south of the Khakassia republic capital, Abakan, the ministry said.
The tremors were felt in five neighboring Siberian regions within 300 miles, including the cities of Barnaul, Krasnoyarsk, Kemerovo and Novosibirsk, an emergency ministry official told the non-governmental Interfax news agency.
A spokesman for RusHydro, Russia's largest power generator, said the earthquake did not hurt the giant Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, 45 miles north of the quake's epicenter.
Seventy-five people were killed in an Aug. 17, 2009, accident at the plant that also led to widespread power failures.
Thursday's quake the first major temblor to hit the region since October 2000, the Russian state-owned RIA Novosti news agency reported.
