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Magnificent Earthquake Shakes Afghanistan, 40 Dead

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Earthquake awesome shaking Afghanistan and killed at least 40 people. More than 60 other people were reported injured as a result of the earthquake that occurred in the area bordering Pakistan that.

“We call on aid agencies to provide immediate assistance to the earthquake victims to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe,” said Afghan government spokesman Bilal Karimi after the earthquake, news agency reported. AFPWednesday (22/6/2022).

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) as reported by the news agency ReutersWednesday (22/6/2022), an earthquake of magnitude (M) 6.1 shook the densely populated part Afghanistan and Pakistan on Wednesday (22/6) early morning local time.

USGS says earthquake it occurred about 44 km (27 miles) from the city of Khost in southeastern Afghanistan at a depth of 51 km.

The head of the Taliban government’s natural disasters ministry, Mohammad Nassim Haqqani, said they would provide an update once they completed further investigations.

“There were no immediate reports of damage or deaths in Pakistan,” he said.

The European Center for Mediterranean Seismology (EMSC) said in a Twitter post that the shaking was felt over 500 km by an estimated 119 million people in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.

According to witness reports posted on the EMSC website and Twitter, the tremors of the earthquake were also felt in the Afghan capital, Kabul, as well as the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.

“The shaking was strong and long-lasting,” a witness from Kabul said in a post on EMSC.

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