In June 2022, a powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan, flattening stone and mud-brick homes. The quake killed at least 1,000 people and injured about 1,500.

International aid groups in Afghanistan are scrambling to send help to survivors of an earthquake which has left more than 2,000 people dead and many more injured in a war-ravaged nation already ...

Kabul: An earthquake of magnitude 4.9 rocked Afghanistan late on Saturday night, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said in a statement. As per the NCS, the earthquake took place at a shallow ...

In 2015, a major earthquake that struck the country’s northeast killed over 200 people in Afghanistan and neighboring northern Pakistan. A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in 2002 killed about 1,000 ...

Over a week since a major earthquake decimated his village in northwest Afghanistan, Noor Ahmad is on a harrowing hunt to find his 5-year-old. The destroyed home of Noor Ahmad and his family in ...

More than 90% of those killed in a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan were women and children, UNICEF said Wednesday, as fresh tremors terrorized residents of villages flattened by the ...

A powerful earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Sunday, just a little over a week after thousands were killed by quakes and their aftermath in the same region. The U.S. Geological Survey said ...

Kabul, Afghanistan — A strong earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing more than 1,000 people, according to officials from the country's ruling Taliban regime.

At least 2,400 people were killed and 9,000 more were injured after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck Western Afghanistan on Saturday. The quake hit Zindajan, a rural district some 40km (25 miles ...

A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Sunday, just over a week after strong quakes killed thousands of people and flattened entire villages in the same region.

The earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday morning measured magnitude 5.9, making it moderately strong. Every year, about 1,300 quakes of similar strength occur around the ...

A magnitude 6 earthquake in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 1,000 people Wednesday morning. The earthquake’s tremors were felt over 310 miles by 119 million people across the country.