ISLAMABAD – A formidable 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Sunday, simply over a week after robust quakes and aftershocks killed 1000’s of folks and flattened complete villages within the same region.
The U.S. Geological Survey stated the newest quake’s epicenter used to be about 34 kilometers (21 miles) outdoor Herat, the provincial capital, and 8 kilometers (5 miles) beneath the skin.
There have been no rapid reputable experiences of conceivable casualties or harm.
The earthquakes on Oct. 7 flattened complete villages in Herat, in one of the vital damaging quakes within the nation’s fresh historical past.
More than 90% of the folk killed a week in the past have been girls and kids, U.N. officers reported Thursday.
Taliban officers stated the sooner quakes killed more than 2,000 people around the province. The epicenter used to be in Zenda Jan district, the place 1,294 folks died, 1,688 have been injured and each and every house used to be destroyed, in step with U.N. figures.
The preliminary quake, a large number of aftershocks and a second 6.3-magnitude quake on Wednesday flattened villages, destroying masses of mud-brick houses that might now not face up to such pressure. Schools, well being clinics and different village amenities additionally collapsed.
Besides rubble and funerals after that devastation, there was little left of the villages in the region’s dusty hills. Survivors are suffering to return to phrases with the lack of more than one members of the family and in lots of puts, dwelling citizens are outnumbered by means of volunteers who got here to look the particles and dig mass graves.