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| Powerful earthquake shakes west Afghanistan a week after devastating quakes hit same region |
| 2023-10-16 |
| [NYPOST] A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Sunday, just over a week after strong quakes and aftershocks killed thousands of people and flattened entire villages in the same province. The U.S. Geological Survey said the latest quake’s epicenter was about 34 kilometers (21 miles) outside Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , the bucolic provincial capital, and eight kilometers (five miles) below the surface. Save the Children said four people have died and that Herat Regional Hospital has received 153 injured. Everything in the Baloch area of Rabat Sangi district has collapsed. Several villages have been destroyed, according to the aid group. Authorities have given lower casualty numbers. Sayed Kazim Rafiqi, 42, a Herat city resident, said he had never seen such devastation before with the majority of houses damaged and "people terrified." Rafiqi and others headed to the hospital to donate much-needed blood. "We have to help in any way possible," he said. The earthquakes on Oct. 7 flattened whole villages in Herat, in one of the most destructive quakes in the country’s recent history. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 If somebody is steering to Tehran...they're missing. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-10-16 12:36 |
| #2 But Iran predicted it would be Israel 🤔, just days ago. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-10-16 06:45 |
| #1 SOMEBODY is really angry with Taliban? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-16 03:12 |