Earthquake

A strong earthquake lasting for at least 30 seconds was felt across much of Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of India on Tuesday night, ...

[struck the impoverished province of Paktika ](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/22/afghanistan-earthquake-at-least-130-dead-after-magnitude-quake-strikes)on 22 June last year. More than 1,000 people were killed and tens of thousands made homeless after a 5.9-magnitude quake – the deadliest in Afghanistan in nearly a quarter of a century – [Afghanistan](https://www.theguardian.com/world/afghanistan), Pakistan and parts of India on Tuesday night, with the US Geological Survey putting its magnitude at 6.5.

A strong earthquake struck northeast Afghanistan on Tuesday, with tremors felt in cities in Pakistan and India.

Eyewitnesses in Lahore told CNN the tremors were also felt there. Strong tremors were felt in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, according to a CNN team on the ground. Residents in the Pakistani city of Islamabad meanwhile said cracks had appeared in the walls of their homes.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck the Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said on Tuesday.

March 21 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck the Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said on Tuesday. The quake was at a depth of 184 km (114 miles), GFZ added. Magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Hindu Kush in Afghanistan - GFZ

Mourning the people killed in February's massive earthquakes, the community gets together for a toned-down celebration.

“Nowruz and lighting a fire on this day symbolises salvation from injustice and tyranny,” said 55-year-old Juma Hassan. Legend has it that to celebrate the victory of Kawa’s army, women donned their brightest dresses and everyone sang and danced around the flames of their liberation. On the morning of March 20, we prepare the necessary equipment to start the fires before we light them at sunset, accompanied by playing popular Kurdish songs and dancing to them.

An earthquake of 6.5 magnitude has hit Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Prayers for the safety of north-western people of Pakistan and Afghanistan.” This comes just a month after an earthquake of 7.8 on the Richter scale hit Turkey and northern Syria, killing tens of thousands of people. [India](/topic/india), Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, [China](/topic/china) and Kyrgyzstan also reporting the quake.

An magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck northern Afghanistan on Tuesday evening, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, causing strong ...

Shaking could be felt as far as the Indian capital, New Delhi. A spokesperson for Red Cross said they had no immediate reports of damages from Badakhshan's capital but were making checks on other areas. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story In Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir - the site of a deadly earthquake in 2005 in which more than 80,000 people were killed - people ran out of their homes, crying and reciting holy verses, according to a Reuters witness. A 13-year old girl died when a wall in her home collapsed on her, and 34 people were injured in the northern Pakistani district of Swat, police officer Shafiullah Gandapur told Reuters. KABUL, March 21 (Reuters) - iAn magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck northern Afghanistan on Tuesday evening, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, killing at least one person in neighbouring Pakistan and causing strong shaking across the north in both countries

Panicked residents ran from their homes and offices, reciting the Quran as 'terrifying' earthquake hits southern Asia. | ITV National News.

“These terrified people collapsed, and some of them collapsed because of the shock of the earthquake,” he said. A magnitude 7.6 quake in 2005 killed thousands of people in Pakistan and Kashmir. The panic was similar in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on the border with Afghanistan, where people were seen standing outside their homes and offices. More than 100 people were brought to hospitals in the Swat valley region of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in a state of shock, Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for Pakistan’s emergency services said. At least two people died on Tuesday evening, including a girl who was killed in a stampede of fleeing people, and a man whose roof collapsed on him. A magnitude 6.5 earthquake rattled much of Afghanistan and Pakistan, sending panicked residents fleeing from their homes and frightening people even in remote villages.

At least two killed, over 300 injured in Pakistan after quake hits Pakistan, Afghanistan, with tremors felt in India.

For a moment, we felt it is the end of our world,” he said. Fifty-two people were injured in other parts of the province, officials said. “We were sitting in our home when we saw everything around us shaking. At least two people have been killed and hundreds injured in northern Pakistan after a magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit areas across Afghanistan and Pakistan, with tremors felt as far as the Indian capital New Delhi. At least two people killed and hundreds injured in Pakistan after a magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits Pakistan and Afghanistan, with tremors felt in India. At least two people, including a child, were killed in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province as a result of the earthquake, rescue officials have told Al Jazeera.

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake rattled much of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday, prompting panicked residents to flee their homes and offices and frightening ...

He said he saw hundreds of people standing on the streets. Geological Survey said the center of the magnitude 6.5 quake was 40 kilometers south-southeast of Jurm in Afghanistan's mountainous Hindukush region, bordering Pakistan and Tajikistan. Faizi said two people died, including a girl who was killed in a stampede of fleeing people, and a man whose roof collapsed on him. Last year in southeastern Afghanistan, a 6.1 magnitude quake struck a rugged, mountainous region, flattening stone and mud-brick homes. The powerful tremors sent many people fleeing their homes and offices in Pakistan's capital of Islamabad, some reciting verses from the Quran, Islam's holy book. Faizi said most were later discharged from the hospital.

Residents in the capital Tuesday fled their homes as walls started swaying and the quake was felt across the country. Pakistan's meteorological office said the ...

Rakhshinda Tauseed, a physician, said she was at her hospital in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore when the earthquake hit. has offered a lower estimate of 770. “I quickly thought that it is a big one, and we left the restaurant and came out,” he told The Associated Press by phone. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers put the total death toll from the quake at 1,150, with hundreds more injured, while the U.N. The U.S. The situation was similar in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on the border with Afghanistan, where people were seen standing outside their homes and offices.

Reports say the tremor was felt in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, as well as in a number of Pakistani cities, Tajikistan and in India's capital, New Delhi.

Videos out of the country show people rushing into the streets as the quake struck 'I quickly thought that it is a big one, and we left the restaurant and came out,' he said. 'We are still collecting data about the damages,' he said. People in the city, which is the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and is on the border with Afghanistan, were seen standing outside their homes and offices. Screens in the studio begin to rattle more and more as a member of the Meshriq TV station staff runs past in the background. 'People ran out of their houses and were reciting the Quran,' a reporter in Rawalpindi, the Punjab province of Afghanistan, said.

The 6.5 magnitude quake was centred in Afghanistan's remote Jurm valley which is prone to seismic activity.

A child was among those killed in the Laghman province near the country's border with Pakistan, AFP reported. Three others were killed in Afghanistan, the country's health ministry spokesman said. Nine of the confirmed deaths were reported in the valley region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan.

The 6.5-magnitude quake damaged buildings, triggered landslides and sent people running into the streets. It struck on Tuesday evening, centred in a mountainous ...

A child was among those killed in the Laghman province near the country's border with Pakistan, AFP reported. Three others were killed in Afghanistan, the country's health ministry spokesman said. Nine of the confirmed deaths were reported in the valley region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan.

At least 19 houses were partially damaged by the earthquake, Abdul Basit, a senior official in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government told Reuters on Wednesday.

In 2005, at least 73,000 people were killed by a 7.6 magnitude quake that struck northern Pakistan. At least nine people were killed and 44 injured in northwest Pakistan, a Pakistani government official said, and hospitals in northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province were put into a state of emergency overnight. At least 13 people were killed and more than 90 injured in Pakistan and Afghanistan after a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck late on Tuesday, government officials said.