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At least seven people died and more than 150 were injured in an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 that occurred in Afghanistan on Sunday night. Mazar-e-Sharif was also damaged in this earthquake. According to USGS, the earthquake was at a depth of about 28 km near the holy shrine.
Health department spokesperson Sameem Joyanda told news agency Reuters that till this morning, seven people have been reported dead, while 150 people have been reported injured. The injured have been transferred to health centres. He said that the number of dead is based on the reports received from the hospital till Monday morning.
Haji Zaid, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s Balkh province, told Reuters that part of Mazar-e-Sharif was also damaged by the earthquake.
USGS pager system issued alert
The USGS has issued an Orange Alert in its pager system, an automated system that generates information about the impact of an earthquake. The pager indicated that large numbers of casualties were likely and the disaster was potentially widespread.
When did earthquakes occur?
According to the Indian agency National Center for Seismology (NCS), the first earthquake occurred at 20:40:52 on the night of Sunday (November 2, 2026), whose intensity was measured at 3.9 on the Richter scale. Within five hours, a second earthquake occurred in the Hindu Kush area, whose intensity was measured at 6.3 on the Richter scale.
Earthquakes are common in Afghanistan, especially near the Hindu Kush mountain range, where the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates meet. After decades of war, Afghanistan is struggling with many crises, including widespread poverty, severe drought and incidents of millions of Afghans being sent home by neighboring countries Pakistan and Iran.
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