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 depth of ...

Almost 1,000 people have died after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit Afghanistan’s Paktika province early on Wednesday. The state-run news agency says at least 1000 are killed and more than 1,500 ...

Powerful earthquakes rocked western Afghanistan on Saturday and Sunday, killing at least 2,000 people and leaving hundreds of others trapped, missing or feared dead.

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 ...

The death toll from strong earthquakes in western Afghanistan, one of the deadliest earthquakes to shake the country in two decades, has risen to more than 2,000, a Taliban government spokesman ...

News Wrap: Aid groups warn of humanitarian crisis after repeated Afghan quakes In our news wrap Sunday, another powerful earthquake rocked Afghanistan’s western region where thousands died in ...

Powerful earthquakes killed at least 2,000 people in western Afghanistan, a Taliban government spokesman said Sunday. It’s one of the deadliest earthquakes to strike the country in two decades.

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 ...

At least 1,023 people were reported killed in the earthquake and 1,663 injured across 11 villages in the Zindajan district of Afghanistan’s Herat province, while 516 remain missing, the U.N. said.

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.

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck Pakistan near the Afghanistan border at 5:39 AM IST on August 25, 2025, at a depth of 25 ...