The earthquake occurred just before 1 local time (on Sunday before 9:30 p.m. in Poland). The tremors were also felt in the capital of the country, Kabul, several hundred kilometers away, AFP journalists report.
How many people died in the earthquake in Afghanistan?
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What were the consequences of the earlier earthquake in Afghanistan?
According to one of the correspondents, the earthquake damaged the 15th-century Blue Mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif, one of the most valuable monuments in the country.
Earthquake in Afghanistan
The Afghan Ministry of Defense announced that it had managed to unblock a road buried by a landslide and evacuate people who were stuck there overnight.
Afghanistan, located in the Hindu Kush mountain range, at the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates, is one of the most seismically active areas in the world.
This is another strong earthquake that has hit the country in recent months. At the end of August, magnitude 6 tremors in Kunar, Laghman and Nangarhar provinces killed over 2,200 people. people and destroyed 7 thousand. houses.
