KABUL: A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Wednesday, hitting an area where more than 2,000 people were killed after a series of similar tremors on the weekend.
The quake occurred at a shallow depth at around 05:10am local time , with its epicentre about 29 kilometres north of the city of Herat, the United States Geological Survey said.Volunteers and rescuers have been working since Saturday in what are now last-ditch attempts to find survivors from the earlier series of earthquakes, which levelled entire villages and affected more than 12,000 people, according to UN estimates.
There were no immediate reports of new casualties after Wednesday’s quake, which hit near Herat city, home to more than half a million people.The earlier earthquakes completely destroyed at least 11 villages in Herat province’s Zenda Jan district, according to the UN. Providing shelter on a large scale will be a challenge for Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities, who seized power in August 2021, and have fractious relations with international aid organisations.
Multi-generational extended families generally live under the same roof, meaning serious earthquakes can devastate communities.
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