Stay Connected. Stay Informed.
An Afghan woman and her children walk amid debris after a powerful earthquake struck Herat, Afghanistan on October 15, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP/PTI The story so far: An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck Western Afghanistan on October 15, barely a few days after multiple earthquakes of similar strength killed at least a thousand people…
Read More “Why are earthquakes frequent in Afghanistan? | Explained” »
An Afghan woman and her children walk amid debris after a powerful earthquake struck Herat, Afghanistan on October 15, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP/PTI The story so far: An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck Western Afghanistan on October 15, barely a few days after multiple earthquakes of similar strength killed at least a thousand people…
Read More “Why are earthquakes frequent in Afghanistan? | Explained” »
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake killed two persons in western Afghanistan on Sunday, with damaged prisons evacuated and residents fleeing a region where tremors have claimed at least 1,000 lives this past week. Since October 7, a series of potent quakes have jolted Herat province, levelling whole villages, burying families and leaving thousands homeless as winter…
Read More “Afghans flee western region after fresh earthquake kills two” »
Kabul: Afghan authorities on Wednesday significantly lowered the death toll from a series of quakes that struck western Herat at the weekend to around 1,000. The Taliban government had originally said over 2,000 people had been killed in Saturday’s magnitude 6.3 quake, centred on rural communities northwest of Herat city. The initial quake was followed…
Read More “Afghanistan Revises Earthquake Death Count, Says Around 1,000 Killed” »
An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck northwestern Afghanistan on October 11, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ)said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ said. Two 6.3 magnitude earthquakes killed dozens of people in western Afghanistan on October 7, the country’s national disaster authority said. Death toll from strong…
Read More “Magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes northwestern Afghanistan” »
Afghan residents clear debris from a damaged house after earthquake in Sarbuland village of Zendeh Jan district of Herat province on October 07,2023. | Photo Credit: AFP Afghan villagers and volunteers on Monday helped dig for survivors of a series of earthquakes that killed more than 2,000 people, as aid began trickling into the devastated…
Read More “Volunteers dig for Afghan quake survivors as aid trickles in” »
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit western Afghanistan on October 7 killing 14 and injuring 78, an official said, with predictions the toll could rise after reports of landslides and victims trapped under collapsed buildings. The United States Geological Survey said the epicentre was 40 kilometres (25 miles) northwest of the region’s largest city of Herat,…
Read More “Magnitude 6.3 earthquake kills 14 in western Afghanistan” »