An earthquake has hit Russia's south-western Siberia.
The 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck east of the Russian city of Kyzyl in the Tuva region of Siberia.
There have been no reports of casualties or serious damage, the emergencies ministry said.
But several locals reported their apartment windows breaking and books and other items falling off shelves, with a series of tremors lasting four or five minutes.
"My photographs and pictures started falling off the walls," a resident of the town of Novokuznetskaya told Russian International News Agency.
The remote and scarcely populated republic on the Mongolian border is one of Russia's most seismically active regions along with its Pacific Ocean coast.
The town of Kyzyl experienced tremors of a similar magnitude on 27 December.
