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2023-10-12 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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Another earthquake shakes Afghanistan
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[GEO.TV] Northwestern Afghanistan Wednesday was struck by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, according to the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ),
The centre stated that the quake, which came in a series of jolts that shook similar parts of Afghanistan over the weekend, occurred at a depth of 10 kilometres, Rooters reported.
The epicentre of the quake was located approximately 29 kilometres towards the north of the country's Herat
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province, the United States Geological Survey mentioned.
There were no early details on casualties caused by the latest quake, disaster management front man Janan Sayeeq told Rooters.
Rescue teams and volunteers have been working on the ground since Saturday to locate the quake's survivors, which shook the province earlier, demolishing entire villages and affecting 12,000 people, the United Nations
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(UN) estimated.
Local and national officials have given conflicting counts of the number of dead and injured from the previous earthquakes, but the disaster ministry has said 2,053 people died.
"We can't give exact numbers for dead and maimed as it is in flux," said disaster management ministry front man Mullah Janan Sayeq.
There were no immediate reports of new casualties after Wednesday's quake, which hit near Herat city, home to more than half a million people.
The earlier earthquakes completely destroyed at least 11 villages in Herat province's Zenda Jan district, according to the United Nations.
"Not a single house is left, not even a room where we could stay at night," said 40-year-old Mohammad Naeem, who told AFP he lost 12 relatives, including his mother, after Saturday's earthquakes.
"We can't live here anymore. You can see, our family got martyred here. How could we live here?"
Local media reported that many Herat residents had been spending their nights living in tents in the open air due to a fear of aftershocks following the weekend tremors.
Providing shelter on a large scale will be a challenge for Afghanistan's Taliban
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authorities, who seized power in August 2021, and have fractious relations with international aid organizations.
Afghanistan is frequently hit by deadly earthquakes, but the weekend disaster was the worst to strike the war-ravaged country in more than 25 years.
Most homes in rural Afghanistan are made of mud and built around wooden support poles, with little in the way of steel or concrete reinforcement.
Multi-generational extended families generally live under the same roof, meaning serious earthquakes can devastate communities.
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