Residents and shopkeepers fled buildings when the temblor hit around 11am.
HERAT: A magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit western Afghanistan this morning, the US Geological Survey said, with the epicentre close to the region’s largest city.
An AFP journalist in the city said residents and shopkeepers fled buildings when the first quake hit around 11am, but that there were not yet reports of casualties or structural damage. “Significant casualties are likely and the disaster is potentially widespread. Past events with this alert level have required a regional or national level response,” it said.Herat – 120km east of the border with Iran – is considered the cultural capital of Afghanistan.
In June last year, more than 1,000 people were killed and tens of thousands made homeless after a 5.9-magnitude quake – the deadliest in Afghanistan in nearly a quarter of a century – struck the impoverished province of Paktika.
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