Powerful magnitude 6.3 quake hits north Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush region

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The earthquake comes 2 months aft the deadliest quake successful caller Afghan history, which killed thousands of people.

A almighty 6.3 magnitude earthquake has struck bluish Afghanistan, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), 2 months aft a tremor killed thousands of people.

The USGS said overnight Sunday into Monday that the quake deed astatine a revised extent of 28km (17 miles) successful Kholm, adjacent the metropolis of Mazar-i-Sharif successful the Hindu Kush region, astatine 12:59 americium section clip (20:29 GMT). It was felt by correspondents with the AFP quality bureau based successful the superior Kabul.

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The bureau had initially fixed the extent arsenic 10km (six miles.)

The country’s nationalist catastrophe absorption bureau said reports connected casualties and harm would beryllium shared later.

On August 31 the deadliest quake successful caller Afghan history, measuring 6.0, struck successful the country’s east, sidesplitting much than 2,200 people.

Earthquakes are communal successful the country, peculiarly on the Hindu Kush upland range, adjacent wherever the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates meet.

Since 1900, northeastern Afghanistan has been deed by 12 quakes with a magnitude supra 7, according to Brian Baptie, a seismologist with the British Geological Survey.