INTL VIDEO: Afghanistan News | Powerful Earthquake Rocks Afghanistan, Nearly 2000 Dead | Afghanistan Earthquake

packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
NOTE the new death toll is somewhere north of 2500 people dead.

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Afghan earthquakes kill 2,445, Taliban say, as deaths mount

The earthquakes hit 20 miles northwest of the city of Herat, with one of 6.3 magnitude. They were among the world's deadliest quakes in a year when tremors in Turkey and Syria killed an estimated 50,000 in February.
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Afghan earthquakes kill 2,445, Taliban say, as deaths mount
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar
October 8, 20231:43 PM CDTUpdated 2 hours ago

KABUL, Oct 8 (Reuters) - More than 2,400 people were killed in earthquakes in Afghanistan, the Taliban administration said on Sunday, in the deadliest tremors to rock the quake-prone mountainous country in years.

The Saturday quakes in the west of the country hit 35 km (20 miles) northwest of the city of Herat, with one of 6.3 magnitude, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.

They were among the world's deadliest quakes this year, after tremors in Turkey and Syria killed an estimated 50,000 in February.

Janan Sayeeq, spokesman for the Ministry of Disasters, said in a message to Reuters that the toll had risen to 2,445 dead, but he revised down the number of injured to "more than 2,000". Earlier, he had said that 9,240 people had been injured.

Sayeeq also said 1,320 houses had been damaged or destroyed. The death toll spiked from 500 reported earlier on Sunday by the Red Crescent.

Ten rescue teams were in the area, which borders Iran, Sayeeq told a press conference.

More than 200 dead had been brought to various hospitals, said a Herat health department official who identified himself as Dr Danish, adding most of them were women and children.

Bodies had been "taken to several places - military bases, hospitals", Danish said.

Beds were set up outside the main hospital in Herat to receive a flood of victims, photos on social media showed.

Food, drinking water, medicine, clothes and tents were urgently needed for rescue and relief, Suhail Shaheen, the head of the Taliban political office in Qatar, said in a message to the media.

[1/6]Afghans injured during the recent earthquake receive treatment at a hospital compound in Herat, Afghanistan October 8, 2023. REUTERS/Ali Khara Acquire Licensing Rights

The mediaeval minarets of Herat sustained some damage, photographs on social media showed, with cracks visible and tiles fallen off.

Hemmed in by mountains, Afghanistan has a history of strong earthquakes, many in the rugged Hindu Kush region bordering Pakistan.

Death tolls often rise when information comes in from more remote parts of a country where decades of war have left infrastructure in a shambles, and relief and rescue operations difficult to organise.

Afghanistan's healthcare system, reliant almost entirely on foreign aid, has faced crippling cuts in the two years since the Taliban took over and much international assistance, which had formed the backbone of the economy, was halted.

Diplomats and aid officials say concerns over Taliban restrictions on women and competing global humanitarian crises are causing donors to pull back on financial support. The Islamist government has ordered most Afghan female aid staff not to work, although with exemptions in health and education.

In August, a spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross said it was likely to end its financial support for 25 Afghan hospitals because of funding constraints. It was not immediately clear if the Herat hospital was on that list.

The quakes triggered panic in Herat, resident Naseema said.

"People left their houses, we all are on the streets," she wrote in a text message to Reuters on Saturday, adding that the city was feeling aftershocks.

There are a total of 202 public health facilities in Herat province, one of which is the major regional hospital where 500 casualties had been taken, the World Health Organization (WHO)said in a report on Sunday.

A vast majority of the facilities are smaller basic health centres and logistical challenges were hindering operations, particularly in remote areas, the WHO said.

"While search and rescue operations remain ongoing, casualties in these areas have not yet been fully identified," it said.

Reporting by Mohammad Yunus Yawar in Kabul; Additional reporting by Ariba Shahid and Gibran Peshimam in Karachi; Editing by William Mallard and Sanjeev Miglani
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Per google:

How strong was Afghanistan earthquake?

The 6.3 magnitude quake devastated at least 12 villages near the city of Herat on Saturday. There were powerful aftershocks. Survivors described their terror as buildings collapsed around them. Rescue teams worked through the night trying to find survivors trapped beneath the rubble
 
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tanstaafl

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packyderms_wife said:
How strong was Afghanistan earthquake?
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The story says "earthquakes" (plural) but they and you didn't note that there were two 6.3 earthquakes about thirty minutes apart. The first one probably knocked a lot of things down and loosened other things up, and the second probably brought down things still standing after the first one (not to mention people in the rubble trying to pull out survivors just in time for the second to hit). From USGS:

6.3
29 km NNE of Zindah Jan, Afghanistan
2023-10-07 00:12:50 (UTC-07:00)
10.0 km

6.3
33 km NNE of Zindah Jan, Afghanistan
2023-10-06 23:41:03 (UTC-07:00)
14.0 km
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
tanstaafl said:
The story says "earthquakes" (plural) but they and you didn't note that there were two 6.3 earthquakes about thirty minutes apart. The first one probably knocked a lot of things down and loosened other things up, and the second probably brought down things still standing after the first one (not to mention people in the rubble trying to pull out survivors just in time for the second to hit). From USGS:

6.3
29 km NNE of Zindah Jan, Afghanistan
2023-10-07 00:12:50 (UTC-07:00)
10.0 km

6.3
33 km NNE of Zindah Jan, Afghanistan
2023-10-06 23:41:03 (UTC-07:00)
14.0 km
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I only saw the first quake, good catch.
 
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tanstaafl

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The story mentioned that war has caused a lot of places to be more isolated than normal, but I seem to recall at least one case where the U.S. built a road into an isolated community and the residents then destroyed the road because they were suddenly getting too many visitors. So it's not just their style of building that might be contributing to the death toll. The Taliban is in no position to provide much in the way of aid, so I expect the death toll to steadily climb.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
tanstaafl said:
The story mentioned that war has caused a lot of places to be more isolated than normal, but I seem to recall at least one case where the U.S. built a road into an isolated community and the residents then destroyed the road because they were suddenly getting too many visitors. So it's not just their style of building that might be contributing to the death toll. The Taliban is in no position to provide much in the way of aid, so I expect the death toll to steadily climb.
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IIRC Alexander the Greats uncle, or maybe great uncle, was from that part of the world... those people flat out refused to live in any sort of building with the majority of the people sleeping outside under the sky, a few did have "tents", but were not tents by today's standards. I learned about this in an art history class of all places. When his Uncle moved to some place in the middle east he was question as to why he was sleeping out of doors, and his response, more or less, was the ground always moves.

It was his uncle that sent him to be educated and formed him into the man we all know from the history books.
 
Doomer Doug

Doomer Doug

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I think the EQ happened shortly after the head taleban psycho called for extermination of Israel and already had started shipping some of biden's left behind

US war material for Hamas to murder Americans and others in Israel. Nah no connection
 
Macgyver

Macgyver

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Another 6.3

apnews.com

6.3 magnitude earthquake shakes part of western Afghanistan where earlier quake killed over 2,000

Another strong earthquake has shaken part of western Afghanistan where a quake on Saturday killed more than 2,000.
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6.3 magnitude earthquake shakes part of western Afghanistan where earlier quake killed over 2,000 | AP News
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Desperate people dig out dead and injured after Afghanistan earthquakes that killed at least 2,000

HERAT, Afghanistan (AP) — Another strong earthquake shook part of western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier quake killed more than 2,000 and flattened whole villages.

The latest 6.3-magnitude earthquake was about 28 kilometers (17 miles) outside Herat, the capital of Herat province, and 10 kilometers (6 miles) deep, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter of Saturday’s quake was about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of the provincial capital, and several aftershocks have been strong, including another 6.3 magnitude Saturday.

Taliban officials said more than 2,000 had died across Herat after the earlier quakes. They subsequently said the quakes killed and injured thousands but didn’t give a breakdown of casualties.

Information on damage from the latest tremor was not immediately available. But there is little left of the villages in the region’s dusty hills besides rubble and funerals.

In Naib Rafi, a village that previously had about 2,500 residents, people said almost no one was still alive besides men who were working outside when the quake struck. Survivors worked all day with excavators to dig long trenches for mass burials.

On a barren field in the district of Zinda Jan, a bulldozer removed mounds of earth to clear space for a long row of graves.

“It is very difficult to find a family member from a destroyed house and a few minutes to later bury him or her in a nearby grave, again under the ground,” said Mir Agha, from the city of Herat, who had joined hundreds of volunteers to help the locals.

Nearly 2,000 houses in 20 villages were destroyed, the Taliban have said. The area hit by the quakes has just one gover
nment-run hospital.
 
Macgyver

Macgyver

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And another 6.3

abcnews.go.com

Strong earthquake hits western Afghanistan

The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.3, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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Strong earthquake hits western Afghanistan​


LONDON -- A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan early Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The quake, which was centered about 30 kilometers (18 miles) north-northwest of Herāt, followed a series of powerful tremors that killed more than a thousand.

An injured Afghan man being brought to a hospital following earthquake in Herat on October 15, 2023. A magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook western Afghanistan on October 15, the US Geological Survey said, wracking the same region where more than 1,000 people were killed in tremors last week.

"This earthquake was preceded by three other M 6.3 earthquakes in the previous days," USGS said in a statement. "One M6.3 occurred on October 11th and two others occurred about 30 minutes apart on October 7th."

Injured Afghan people being brought to a hospital following earthquake in Herat on October 15, 2023. A magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook western Afghanistan on October 15, the US Geological Survey said, wracking the same region where more than 1,000 people were killed in tremors last week.

Sunday’s earthquake was registered at a depth of 6.3 km along the same fault planes on which the four most recent quakes struck, the USGS's statement said.
ABC News' KJ Edelman contributed to this story.
 
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