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Magnitude 6.3 earthquake hits Afghanistan's Herat city
Afghan residents clear debris as they look for victims' bodies in the rubble of damaged houses after the earthquakes in Kashkak village, Zendeh Jan district of Herat province on October 8, 2023.
Photo credit: AFP
What you need to know:
- On October 7, another magnitude 6.3 quake and eight powerful aftershocks jolted the same part of Herat, killing over 1,000 people and wounding hundreds more.
- Most homes in rural Afghanistan are made of mud and built around wooden support poles, with little in the way of steel or concrete reinforcement.
A shallow 6.3 magnitude earthquake rocked western Afghanistan on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, the latest to hit a region where entire villages have been flattened and over 1,000 killed by a series of tremors this month.
The quake hit at 0336 GMT, 33 kilometres (20 miles) from Herat city, the capital of the western province of the same name, the USGS said.
