The number of deaths and injuries is expected to increase. Twelve villages in the Zinda Jan district, the epicenter of the quakes, have been completely destroyed. More than 2,000 people have been evacuated.
The Afghan authorities have confirmed this the deaths of more than 2,530 people and 9,240 injured in the magnitude 6.3 earthquakes and successive aftershocks that shook the state of Herat, in the west of the country, yesterday. one of the worst earthquakes in the country in recent decades.
The spokesperson of the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS), Irfanullah Sharafzoy, has indicated that Twelve villages in the Zinda Jan district, the epicenter of the quakes, ‘have been completely destroyed and Afghan Red Crescent personnel are still searching the area and under the rubble.”
Meanwhile, residents are being evacuated to safer areas, he said.
It is estimated that About 4,200 people, including 600 families, have been affected and 400 houses were destroyed by the earthquake, with the village of Mahal Wadakah hardest hit, according to a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The document estimates the number of people displaced to the city of Herat, capital of the province of the same name, at 2,100, “where they live in abandoned buildings,” OCHA said.
Afghanistan felt on this day at least seven vibrations. The first, the largest, occurred at 12:11 (+5:30 GMT) at a depth of 14 kilometers and 33 kilometers from the city of Zindah Jan, located in Herat province, according to the USGS.
Source: EITB
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