An Afghan man clears rubble from the courtyard of his broken home, within the aftermath of an earthquake at a village within the Khulm district of Samangan province
An earthquake in Afghanistan has killed eight members of the identical household when their house collapsed within the Gosfand Dara space of Kabul province.
Well being Ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman mentioned on Saturday {that a} youngster aged round two years outdated was the one survivor. Afghanistan’s catastrophe administration company mentioned the boy was injured.
The 5.8-magnitude quake struck at 8:42pm native time on Friday at a depth of 186km (115 miles). The epicentre was within the northeastern province of Badakhshan.
The capital Kabul is about 290km southwest of the epicentre.
There have been no rapid stories of accidents or harm in areas nearer to the epicentre. The province is distant so it may possibly usually take a number of hours earlier than native authorities can relay info again to Kabul.
Sturdy tremors had been felt in a number of elements of Afghanistan, together with Kabul and the Indian capital New Delhi, witnesses advised the Reuters information company.
Pakistan additionally felt the quake, together with within the capital Islamabad and Peshawar, Chitral, Swat and Shangla. There have been no rapid stories of accidents or harm.
Earlier quakes
Afghanistan is steadily jolted by earthquakes alongside the Hindu Kush mountain vary – close to the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates. On common, 560 persons are killed by quakes there yearly.
The deadliest tremor within the nation’s latest historical past struck final August. The shallow magnitude 6 earthquake in jap Afghanistan worn out mountain villages, killing at the very least 2,200 folks
Most casualties had been in Kunar province, the place Afghans usually dwell in wooden and mud-brick homes alongside steep valleys.
Impoverished Afghanistan usually faces problem in responding to pure disasters, particularly in distant areas.
Many houses in rural and outlying areas are poorly constructed with bricks, wooden and dirt.
