More than 250 people were killed and 500 injured when a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck southeastern Afghanistan on Sunday, the country’s Information Ministry told Anadolu.
A ministry official informed
Anadolu that casualties were reported in the Nur Gal, Sawki, Watpur, Manogi, and Chapa Dara districts of Kunar province.
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.
