Nine people have been killed and 25 others were injured after an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck Southeastern Afghanistan on Sunday.
According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the quake
was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles).
The quake’s epicentre was 36 kilometres (22 miles) north of Basawul, Afghanistan, and it had a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said. It struck at 11:47 pm local time Sunday.
The quake shook buildings from Kabul to Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, approximately 370 kilometres away, for several seconds, AFP journalists reported.
Earlier, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Afghanistan on October 7, 2023, along with strong aftershocks. The Taliban government estimated that at least 4,000 perished.
The UN provided a significantly lower figure of approximately 1,500. It was the deadliest natural disaster to strike Afghanistan in recent memory.
