Afghanistan Earthquake: Over 600 Killed, 1,500 Injured As 6.0 Magnitude Quake Jolts Eastern Region | World News
Afghanistan Earthquake: According to officials quoted by various media reports, a destructive earthquake that measures the size of 6.0 shook East Afghanistan in the early hours of Monday and died at least 622 people and injured more than 1,500. According to India’s National Seismology Center (NCS), this first earthquake was followed by aftershocks with sizes ranging from 4 to 5. After a 6.3 -magnitude tremor, an earthquake of 4.7 magnitude occurred at a depth of approximately 140 km, not more than the epic center of the first tremor.
Taliban officials, rescue teams continued to pass through the residues in search of survivors, sent helicopters to evacuate the injured. Catastrof adds a new coercion to Afghanistan’s limited resources, because the country is struggling with many human challenges from international assistance to the mass return of its citizens from neighboring states to the mass return.
Demolition in Afghanistan
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In Kabul, health officials reported that rescue teams are urgently working to reach isolated hamlets in a region that is susceptible to both earthquakes and floods. According to the Ministry of Health, three villages in the province of Kunar were completely flattened, many of them were seriously damaged.
Rescue efforts were especially intense along the border with Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where shallow midnight earthquake – only 10 kilometers (6 miles) collision at depth – for rubble of reduced sludge and stone houses.
Details from seismology center
National Seismology Center (NCS), the earthly at 12:47 (local 23:47) reported that. The central base was detected in 34.50 ° N latitude and 70.81 ° E, and the tremors were caused by 160 kilometers of the surface.
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X (formerly called twitter) in a statement, NCS confirmed: “01/09/2025 00:47:41 ist. Place: Afghanistan, Depth: 160 km, Coordinates: 34.50 N, 70.81 E.”
The tremors he feels in the region
The power of the earthquake was not limited to Afghanistan. Powerful vibrations fluctuated in neighboring regions, including Pakistan and North India. Delhi-NCr and some other Indian cities reported that many residents want to hurry outside in panic.
Authorities in the affected areas have launched rescue operations, but the authorities warn that the number of wounded may increase as more information is obtained. (With agency inputs)
