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A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Sunday, just over a week after strong quakes and aftershocks killed thousands of people and flattened entire villages in the same ...
Within 250 km (160 mi) of the 7 October earthquakes epicenters, there have been seven magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquakes with epicenters in Iran. These include a M w 7.3 earthquake in May 1997 and a M w 7.1 earthquake in 1979. [6] In June 2022, eastern Afghanistan was affected by an earthquake that killed over 1,000 people. [7]
This is a list of earthquakes in Afghanistan. Fairly moderate earthquakes have been very destructive in the country, particularly in the years 1998 , 2002 and 2023 . This can be blamed on the population residing in mostly informal and adobe houses, which are extremely vulnerable to earthquake shaking.
Some 2,000 people have perished after a powerful earthquake struck western Afghanistan, the Taliban said Sunday, as the nation reels from another natural disaster at a time of deep economic crisis.
A powerful magnitude-6.3 earthquake followed by strong aftershocks killed dozens of people in western Afghanistan on Saturday, the country's national disaster authority said.
A major earthquake in 2015 in northeast Afghanistan killed more than 200 people in the country and neighboring Pakistan. [8] In 2008, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake in western Pakistan killed 166 people and destroyed several villages from triggered landslides. [10] Thousands died when earthquakes struck the country in 2002 and 1998. [11]
Afghans are still reeling from recent quakes, including the magnitude 6.5 earthquake in March that struck much of western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan, and an earthquake that hit eastern ...
The earthquake was initially reported inaccurately as M w 7.7. [8] Shaking was felt over an area 1,000 km (620 mi) wide by approximately 285 million people in Pakistan , India , Uzbekistan , Tajikistan , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Afghanistan , and Turkmenistan , according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre .