NTB writes with reference to Reuters that the German geo-institute GFZ has measured an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 at a depth of about 10 kilometers in southeastern Afghanistan on Thursday. The international disaster monitoring system GDACS estimates that the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.6.
There are still no reports of injured or deceased.
Sunday's relatively shallow earthquake (eight kilometers) had a magnitude of 6.0 and its center was 27 kilometers from the country's fifth largest city Jalalabad. Buildings shook in both Afghanistan's capital Kabul and Pakistan's capital Islamabad.
Nearly 4,000 have been registered as injured. The vast majority of the victims were from the mountainous Kunar province near the border with Pakistan. Rescue efforts are still ongoing in that area, writes a spokesperson for the Taliban regime on X.
The earthquake was followed by several aftershocks. And now, apparently, a severe one.
