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  • In Afghanistan, several strong earthquakes have shaken the border region near Iran.
  • The US Earthquake Monitoring Service (USGS) estimated the magnitude of at least eight quakes to be between 4.6 and 6.3.
  • According to official figures, at least 15 people were killed and 40 injured in the earthquakes in western Afghanistan.
  • However, Afghanistan’s civil protection agency fears hundreds of deaths.

Seven villages in the severely affected border province of Herat were completely destroyed, a spokesman for the national disaster control told the German Press Agency. The Sindajan district was particularly affected. “In some villages up to 1,000 or more people lived. There were 300 houses. Only 100 people survived,” said the spokesman.

Many people are suspected to be under rubble

However, only 15 deaths have been officially confirmed so far. Many residents are believed to be under rubble. According to the spokesman for the Taliban ruling Afghanistan, Sabiullah Mujahid, military and rescue organizations have been ordered to rush to the earthquake-affected region to help. Hospitals were therefore preparing for numerous injured people.

The tremors occurred in the morning northwest of the Afghan border town of Herat, at a shallow depth of around ten kilometers. Severe earthquakes occur again and again in the region where the Arabian, Indian and Eurasian plates meet. More than 1,000 people died in a devastating earthquake in Afghanistan in 2022.


SRF 4 News, October 7th, 2023, 6:00 p.m.;


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