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A visit to Chitral in Pakistan’s Hindu Kush shows how communities survive amid no flights, perilous roads, and seasonal hazards like floods, landslides and avalanches. Locals and reporters alike navigate delays and dangerous terrain—even witnessing boulders blown up to clear routes—while daily life persists in this isolated mountain region.
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, with its epicenter in the Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan. Despite causing panic and sending residents fleeing from their homes and offices, no immediate reports of damage were made in either country. The quake was felt in major cities and remote villages, but authorities in both Pakistan and Afghanistan reported no significant damage. The International Rescue Committee expressed concern about the earthquake's impact on Afghanistan, a country already dealing with conflict, climate change, and economic crisis.
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing at least 13 people and injuring over 90. Nine people were killed and 44 injured in northwest Pakistan, while four people were killed and 50 injured in Afghanistan. The quake was felt over an area more than 1,000 kilometres wide by some 285 million people in Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. The epicentre was in the Hindu Kush mountains, in the sparsely populated northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan, 40km southeast of Jurm village, at the considerable depth of 187km.
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, leaving at least four people dead in Afghanistan and nine in Pakistan, with over 50 others injured. The Hindu Kush mountain range was the epicenter of the quake, which was felt across Central and South Asia. The region is often hit by earthquakes due to its location at the junction of the Indian and Eurasian continental plates.
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck northern Afghanistan, killing two in the east of the country and one child in neighbouring Pakistan. The tremor was very deep, 194 km (120.5 miles), and its epicentre was in the Hindu Kush mountain range, near the remote northern Afghan province of Badakhshan. Shaking was felt over an area 1,000 kilometres wide by approximately 285 million people in Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, according to the EMSC.