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Pakistan 7.5-magnitude earthquake |
A massive earthquake has hit Afghanistan, northern Pakistan and parts of India, with reports more than 180 people died by shakes as powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake rocks South Asia. A magnitude-7.5 earthquake hit Afghanistan on Monday, and was felt hundreds of miles away in Pakistan and India. An earthquake struck in northeastern Afghanistan on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Pakistan is situated at the north western side of the Indian subcontinent and overlaps both with the Indian and the Eurasian tectonic plates. The 2005 Kashmir earthquake occurred at 08:50:39 Pakistan Standard Time on 8 October in the Azad Kashmir region of Pakistan.Deaths, damage reported in powerful Afghanistan quake. 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck southern Asia on Monday.
M7.5 - 45km N of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan. 12 students were killed while trying to escape from a girls’ school in Taloqan, north-east Afghanistan, and six people died in the eastern province of Nangarhar. A police official in Badakhshan said dozens of houses were destroyed in two remote and sparsely populated rural districts, with some damage reported in Fayzabad.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.5 and occurred at a depth of 212 kilometers (130 miles) with its epicentre in the Hindukush mountain range in Afghanistan. It struck at around 2.40 PM, sending ripples across several states like Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, the National Capital Region (NCR), Punjab, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan.
Rescue official Latifir Rehman says 21 people were killed and 200 were injured in various parts of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Monday’s earthquake.The USGS initially listed it was a 7.7-magnitude; Pakistan's earthquake center preliminarily recorded the earthquake at magnitude-8.1. The earthquake could be felt in Kabul, Afghanistan, the nation's capital, and in Peshawar, Pakistan, according to the USGS.
"Dry weather will continue for the next several days with high pressure over the region," AccuWeather Meteorologist Eric Leister said. "Conditions will feel warm during the day but quite chilly at night with low temperatures falling to near or below 0C across northern Afghanistan through the middle of the week," Leister said.
