Magnitude 6.3 earthquake jolts northern Afghanistan; tremors felt in Kabul

An Earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck bluish Afghanistan precocious Sunday into Monday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The quake deed the Kholm country adjacent the metropolis of Mazar-i-Sharif astatine a revised extent of 28 kilometres, and tremors were felt arsenic acold arsenic the capital, Kabul, according to AFP correspondents. The USGS had initially recorded the extent astatine 10 kilometres earlier updating the figure. The latest quake comes conscionable 2 months aft a almighty 6.0 magnitude tremor successful eastbound Afghanistan killed much than 2,200 radical connected August 31, marking 1 of the deadliest earthquakes successful the country’s caller history. Earthquakes hap often successful Afghanistan, particularly on the Hindu Kush upland scope wherever the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates converge. “Since 1900, northeastern Afghanistan has been deed by 12 quakes with a magnitude supra 7,” said Brian Baptie, a seismologist with the British Geological Survey.