After a powerful earthquake struck Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province, killing over 800 people and injuring over 2,500 others.
Afghanistan is prone to tremors because of its mountainous surroundings, which are highly active seismically near the intersection of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.
The country has experienced one of the most deadly earthquakes in the last ten years:
August 31, 2025
Around midnight on Sunday (23:30 GMT on Sunday), a magnitude 6 earthquake struck Kunar and Nangarhar, the nation’s eastern provinces.
According to Interior Ministry spokesman Mufti Abdul Mateen, at least 600 people died in Kunar and 12 in Nangarhar.
According to Sharafat Zaman, a spokesman for the Health Ministry, rescue operations are still being conducted because the earthquake destroyed a number of villages.
October, 2023
In one of the country’s most deadly natural disasters in a long time, three earthquakes erupted in Herat province in October 2023.
Western Afghanistan’s Herat province was struck by a magnitude 6. 3 earthquake on October 7.
On October 11, another magnitude 6. 3 earthquake struck the province, and a magnitude 6. 4 earthquake was recorded on October 15.
At least 2,445 people died in these earthquakes, according to the British Red Cross Society.
March 21, 2023
Near the border with Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Badakhshan, was struck by a magnitude 6. 6.5 earthquake.
At least 13 people died.
September 2022
The neighboring provinces of Kunar and Nangarhar in northeastern Afghanistan experienced two earthquakes of magnitudes of 5. 1 and 4. 6.
At least eight people have been reported dead.
June 22, 2022
Eastern Afghanistan’s Paktika, Paktia, Khost, and Nangarhar provinces were struck by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake.
More than 1, 000 people were killed when several homes collapsed as a result of the disaster.
January 17, 2022
A shallow earthquake of magnitude 5.3 was reported by the US Geological Survey (USGS) in the western Afghan province of Badghis.
At least 26 people died.
October 26, 2015
Northeastern Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush region was the site of a magnitude 7.500 earthquake.
117 people were killed, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
Source: Aljazeera
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