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الزلازل المميت في أفغانستان

By Ninian Carter

October 9, 2023 - أفغانستان لديها تاريخ طويل من الزلازل القوية، وقع الكثير منها في جبال هندو كوش الوعرة التي تمتد من وسط أفغانستان إلى المناطق المتاخمة لباكستان وطاجيكستان.

More than 2,400 people are known to have been killed, and at least 2,000 injured in two earthquakes which struck Afghanistan near the city of Herat, on October 7, the Taliban administration says – the deadliest in years.

Afghanistan, largely encircled in by mountains, has a long history of deadly earthquakes, many in the rugged Hindu Kush mountains that stretch from central Afghanistan to areas bordering Pakistan and Tajikistan.

AFGHANISTAN’S DEADLIEST QUAKES SINCE 1990
Oct 2023, Herat: 2,400+ dead
Jun 2022, Paktika: 1,036
Oct 2015, Hindu Kush: 399 (includes Pakistan and India)
Mar 2002, Hindu Kush: 1,100
Feb 1998, Takhar: 2,300
May 1998, Takhar: 4,700
May 1997, Qayen: 1,500 (includes Iran)
Feb 1991, Hindu Kush: 848 (includes Pakistan and Soviet Union)

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PUBLISHED: 09/10/2023; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Getty Images
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