LONDON — One other earthquake has hit jap Afghanistan because the loss of life toll from Sunday’s highly effective earthquake climbed to 2,205, with one other 3,640 folks injured, a Taliban authorities spokesman mentioned Thursday.
The Thursday earthquake was a average 5.6 magnitude, based on the U.S. Geological Survey Nationwide Earthquake Data Heart. It was nonetheless unclear whether or not the brand new quake prompted additional harm.
Search and rescue efforts from the preliminary quake are ongoing within the affected areas, based on Taliban spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat, who offered the up to date casualty numbers through social media.
An Afghan man appears for his belongings amidst the rubble of his collapsed home after a lethal magnitude 6 earthquake that struck Afghanistan on Sunday, at Lulam village, in Nurgal district, Kunar province, Afghanistan, Sept. 3, 2025.
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“Tents have been put in for displaced households in a number of places,” he mentioned, “and the organized distribution of main and pressing humanitarian help is presently underway.”
The 6.0 magnitude quake struck simply earlier than midnight on Sunday, based on the U.S. Geological Survey.
An Afghan man sits amid the stays of a broken home, within the aftermath of an earthquake on the Dara-i-Nur district of Nangarhar province on September 3, 2025.
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A sequence of aftershocks struck amid rescue efforts, together with a 5.2 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday about 20 miles northeast of Jalalabad, based on the USGS.
