Kabul [Afghanistan], November 26 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 struck Afghanistan on Wednesday morning, as reported by the Nationwide Heart for Seismology (NCS).
In a submit on X, the NCS mentioned that the earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometres.
‘EQ of M: 4.6, On: 26/11/2025 04:39:43 IST, Lat: 36.31 N, Lengthy: 68.93 E, Depth: 10 Km, Location: Afghanistan.’
https://x.com/NCS_Earthquake/standing/1993460426785616321?s=20
Earlier on November 21, an earthquake had struck Afghanistan.
In a submit on X, NCS mentioned, ‘EQ of M: 4.3, On: 21/11/2025 12:59:11 IST, Lat: 36.40 N, Lengthy: 70.52 E, Depth: 170 Km, Location: Afghanistan.’
On November 4, a robust earthquake rattled northern Afghanistan, killing at the least 27 folks and injuring 956 extra, in response to Sharafat Zaman Amar, the spokesperson for Taliban’s Ministry of Public Well being. The tremor additionally broken one of many nation’s most stunning mosques, CNN reported.
Households had been jolted awake within the early hours of Monday when the 6.3-magnitude quake struck close to Mazar-i-Sharif, some of the populated cities within the north of the nation, at a shallow depth of 28 kilometers (17.4 miles), america Geological Survey mentioned, as per CNN.
Afghanistan has a historical past of highly effective earthquakes, and the Hindu Kush Mountain vary is a geologically lively space the place quakes happen yearly, in response to the Pink Cross.
Afghanistan sits on quite a few fault strains between the Indian and the Eurasian tectonic plates, with a fault line additionally working immediately via Herat. Its location on a number of lively fault strains alongside the collision zone between the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates makes it a seismically lively area. These plates meet and collide, inflicting frequent seismic exercise.
As per the United Nations Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), Afghanistan stays extremely weak to pure disasters, together with seasonal flooding, landslides and earthquakes.
These frequent earthquakes in Afghanistan trigger harm to weak communities, that are already grappling with a long time of battle and underdevelopment and have left them with little resilience to deal with a number of simultaneous shocks, UNOCHA famous. (ANI)
