At least seven killed as magnitude-6.3 earthquake strikes Afghanistan

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck bluish Afghanistan overnight Sunday into Monday, sidesplitting astatine slightest 7 radical and injuring astir 150, provincial officials said. The quake, astatine a extent of 28 km (17 miles) adjacent Mazar-i-Sharif, deed 2 months aft a tremor successful the eastbound killed much than 2,200.

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck northernAfghanistanovernight Sunday into Monday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, sidesplitting astatine slightest 7 radical and injuring astir 150, provincial authorities said connected Monday.

The overnight quake, which happened 2 months aft a tremor successful the impoverished nation's eastkilled implicit 2,200 people,hit astatine a extent of 28 kilometers (17 miles) successful Kholm, adjacent the metropolis of Mazar-i-Sharif, according to the USGS.

In Mazar-i-Sharif, galore radical ran into the thoroughfare successful the mediate of the night, fearing their homes mightiness collapse, an AFP analogous observed.

TheTalibanauthorities person had to woody with respective large quakes since returning to powerfulness successful 2021, including 1 successful 2023 successful the occidental Herat portion connected the borderline with Iran that killed much than 1,500 radical and destroyed much than 63,000 homes.

A shallow 6.0-magnitude quake struck this twelvemonth connected August 31 successful the country's east, sidesplitting much than 2,200 radical -- the deadliest tremor successful caller Afghan history.

Earthquakesare communal inAfghanistan, peculiarly on the Hindu Kush upland range, adjacent wherever the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates meet.

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Afghanistanis contending with aggregate crises aft decades of war: endemic poverty,severe droughtand the influx of millions of Afghans forced backmost location by neighbouring Pakistan and Iran.

Many humble Afghan homes are shoddily built and mediocre infrastructure hampers rescue efforts aft earthy disasters similar quakes.

Since 1900, northeasternAfghanistanhas been deed by 12 quakes with a magnitude supra 7, according to Brian Baptie, a seismologist with the British Geological Survey.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, REUTERS)

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