Earthquake Of Magnitude 4.1 Strikes Afghanistan

According to the statement made by the National Center for Seismology (NCS), a 4.1 magnitude earthquake occurred in Afghanistan on Friday.

According to the statement, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 178 kilometers.

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Earlier in the day, a 4.3 magnitude earthquake occurred in Afghanistan at a depth of 170 kilometers.

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A powerful earthquake in northern Afghanistan on November 4 killed at least 27 people and injured 956 others, according to Sharafat Zaman Amar, spokesman for the Taliban Ministry of Public Health. According to CNN, the earthquake also damaged one of the most beautiful mosques in the country.

The 6.3-magnitude earthquake, which occurred at a shallow depth of 28 kilometers (17.4 miles) near Mazar-e-Sharif, one of the most populous cities in the north of the country, caused families to wake up, the United States Geological Survey reported to CNN.

Afghanistan has a history of powerful earthquakes, and the Hindu Kush Mountain Range is a geologically active region where earthquakes occur every year, according to the Red Cross.

Afghanistan lies on multiple fault lines between the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, and one fault line passes directly through Herat. Its location on many active fault lines along the collision zone between the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates makes it a seismically active region. These plates meet and collide, causing frequent seismic activity.

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), Afghanistan remains highly vulnerable to natural disasters such as seasonal floods, landslides and earthquakes.

These frequent earthquakes in Afghanistan are damaging vulnerable communities already grappling with decades of conflict and underdevelopment, leaving them with little resilience to cope with multiple simultaneous shocks, UNOCHA said.