Third earthquake in nine days shakes southern Afghanistan

KABUL: Southern regions of Afghanistan experienced a powerful earthquake today, marking the third such seismic event in just nine days.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said in its report, that the epicentre of the tremor was 30 km north-west of Herat, Afghanistan’s third-largest city close to the Iranian border.

So far no death toll has been reported.

Afghanistan hit by second earthquake in days

The Afghan authorities said that they are trying to estimate the damage caused by the earthquake.

This disaster strikes after over 2,000 people were killed and nearly 1,000 injured in an earthquake of 6.2 magnitude in western Afghanistan on October 7. Days after, on Wednesday, another powerful earthquake struck Herat Province in Afghanistan near the border with Iran.

More than 90 percent of those who died in the earlier quakes were women and children, the UN’s children agency UNICEF said.