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A 4.0-kilometre (2.5 mi) deep earthquake measuring magnitude (M w ) 6.2 struck southeastern Afghanistan on 22 June 2022 at 01:24:36 AFT (on 21 June 2022 at 20:54:36 UTC). [2] The earthquake had a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). There were 1,052–1,163 deaths and 1,627–2,976 injured in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
And a 5.6 magnitude earthquake on January 17, 2022 struck Badghis, another western province near Herat bordering Turkmenistan, killed more than 20 people and reduced hundreds of brick homes to rubble.
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.
In June 2022, a powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan, flattening stone and mud-brick homes. The quake killed at least 1,000 people and injured about 1,500.
The earthquakes that struck on Saturday were followed by nearly 20 powerful aftershocks, with another 6.3-magnitude quake hitting the region on Wednesday
January 2022 Afghanistan earthquakes: 5 27 6.1 Indonesia, West Sumatra: VIII (Severe) 4.9 25 February: 2022 Sumatra earthquake: 6 21 7.6 Papua New Guinea, Morobe: VIII (Severe) 116.0 10 September: 2022 Papua New Guinea earthquake: 7 18 5.1 Afghanistan, Kunar: VII (Very strong) 10.0 4 September: September 2022 Afghanistan earthquake: 8 11 7.0
An earthquake that hit eastern Afghanistan in June 2022, striking a rugged, mountainous region, wiped out stone and mud-brick homes and killed at least 1,000 people.
These earthquakes beneath the Hindu Kush are the result of movement on faults accommodating detachment of the subducted crust. [3] Within the shallow crust, the Chaman Fault represents a major transform fault associated with large shallow earthquakes that forms the transpressional boundary between the Eurasian and Indian Plates.