2,000 died in 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck in western Afghanistan

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Wednesday, where more than 2,000 people have died following a similar earthquake over the weekend. The earthquake occurred at 05:10 am local time. The headquarters of the US Geological Survey is located approximately 29 km north of the city of Herat, he said.
Volunteers and rescuers have been working since Saturday in a last-ditch effort to find survivors of an earlier earthquake that struck entire villages and affected more than 12,000 people, according to UN estimates.
Local and national officials have given conflicting figures on the number of deaths and injuries in previous earthquakes, but the disaster ministry reported 2,053 deaths.
“We cannot give exact figures for the dead and injured,” said Mullah Janan Sayek, a spokesman for the Ministry of Natural Disasters.
According to the United Nations, the previous earthquake completely destroyed at least 11 villages in the Zenda Jan district of Khyrat province.
Local media reported that people spent the night in outdoor tents for fear of an aftershock after the weekend. It will be difficult for the Afghan Taliban authorities, who seized power in August, to provide such a large sanctuary. 2021 and has strong ties with international aid organizations.
Earthquakes are common in Afghanistan, but this weekend’s disaster was the worst in more than 25 years in the war-torn country. Most houses in rural Afghanistan are made of mud and built around small wooden poles with steel or concrete bracing.
Multigenerational extended families often live under one roof, which means that a serious earthquake can destroy a community.
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