TASHKENT - An Uzbek emergency department official said Wednesday that a powerful earthquake hit the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border area at 1935 GMT Tuesday, resulting in 14 deaths.

The 6.2-magnitude quake centered in Kyrgyzstan caused no casualties. However, it jolted the eastern Uzbek city of Ferghana, some 42 km away from the epicenter, killing 13 people, the official said.

In Tajikistan, the third country that shares the Ferghana area, an emergency official confirmed that one man fell to his death due to the earthquake.

The Uzbek emergency agency has provided medical aid to the injured, 86 people in total, and 35 of them have been sent to the nearest hospital.

Both Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have sent rescue teams to help the victims.

Quakes are a relatively frequent occurrence in this region. A 6.6-magnitude quake near Kyrgyzstan's borders with Tajikistan and China flattened the remote mountain village of Nura in July 2008, killing at least 74 people.