At Least 7 Killed, 150 Injured After 6.3 Magnitude Earthquake Jolts Afghanistan

In the early hours of Monday, an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck the northern part of Afghanistan killing at least seven people and injuring approximately 150 people.

the health department spokesperson in Samangan, a mountainous province in the north, close to Mazar-e Sharif informed the news agency Reuters.

“A total of 150 people injured and seven martyred have been reported and transferred to health centres as of this morning," Samim Joyanda,The depth of the earthquake according to the National Centre of Seismology (NCS) was 23 kilometres.

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According to a post on X. the NCS wrote, EQ of M: 6.3, On: 03/11/2025 01:59:02 IST, Lat: 36.51 N, Long: 67.50 E, Depth: 23 Km, Location: Afghanistan.(sic).

The first reports show that the quake has hit the area around Mazar-i-Sharif and the town of Khulm in the first hours of Monday. The capital city of Balkh province, Mazar-i-Sharif, is to this day one of the large urban centers in northern Afghanistan according to news outlet CNN.

The CNN report indicated that the shock of the shaking would result in the death of hundreds of people according to the models created by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

“Several provinces of the country were once again shaken by a strong earthquake at around 1 am (3:30 p.m. ET Sunday)," the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority said in a statement shared with CNN.

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The news outlet further notes that tremors were also experienced in some parts of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan which are the neighbours of northern Afghanistan.

A woman living in Mazar-i-Sharif narrated to CNN that as the quake shook her she woke up in horror and her children ran down the stairs screaming.

One of the former schoolteachers, Rahima, informed the network that she never had such a powerful earthquake in her life, and that some of the windows were smashed and the plaster on her walls was also destroyed.

According to the CNN report, the USGS PAGER system gave an orange alert, which means that the consequences may be severe. The warning stated that there will be high casualty and the catastrophe will probably be extensive. There has been a history of this type of alert level that necessitates a response at the regional or national level.

A 3.9 magnitude tremor was also detected in a shallow depth of 10 kilometres earlier in the evening of Sunday. The NCS reported in one of the postings, X, that there was EQ of M 3.9, On: 02/11/2025 20:40:52 IST, Latitude: 36.50 N, Longitude: 71.08 E, Depth: 10 Km and location, Afghanistan.

As shallow earthquakes emanate energy nearer to the Earth surface, they tend to produce greater tremors and become very threatening to lives and properties.

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