A strong earthquake lasting at least 30 seconds was felt in Pakistan and Afghanistan Tuesday night (local time).witnesses reported.
“People rushed out of their homes, most of them reading the Qur’an,” said an AFP reporter in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and other similar testimonies come from Lahore and Afghanistan.
The United States Geological Survey indicates that the magnitude is 6.5, with its epicenter in Afghanistan’s Badajshan province and at a depth of 187 kilometers.
Videos of the movement and citizens evacuated to safe places are already circulating on social networks.
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According to the first reports, the earthquake was felt in Turkmenistan, India, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, China, India and Kyrgyzstan. Likewise, it was reported that there was a fort in Kabul, located about 300 kilometers from the epicenter.
The Afghan Hindu Kush site is a major point of seismic activity and the common origin of telluric movements in the region.
Because of the depth, the United States Geological Survey classified deaths or major damage records as “low probability.” However, a report from local authorities is awaited.
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At the end of last June 2022, a similar 5.9 magnitude earthquake occurred in the eastern provinces of Paktika and Khost.On the border with Pakistan, it killed more than a thousand people and injured nearly 1,500 people in addition to the destruction of hundreds of homes.
The country also suffered one of the worst earthquake disasters in the north of the country in 1998; Two earthquakes of magnitude 5.9 and 6 in February killed nearly 4,000 people. A few months later, at the end of May, another magnitude 7 earthquake shook the region again, killing about 5,000 people.
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