Bilal Karimi, the deputy official representative of the government of the radical Taliban movement (an organization banned in Russia), said that more than a thousand Afghan citizens were victims of the earthquake that occurred in the west of the country on Saturday. This was reported by TASS Citing Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“Unfortunately, the number of victims is very high. More than a thousand people died,” Karimi said.
7 October in Afghanistan there was an earthquake magnitude 6.2. According to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center, the epicenter of the disaster was 42 kilometers northwest of the city of Herat, where 272 thousand people live. The epidemic lay at a depth of 10 km.
USGS also reportedA 7.0 magnitude earthquake occurred in Papua New Guinea. The epicenter of the tremors is located 63 kilometers southeast of Madang village, where approximately 27.4 thousand people live. The source of the seismic event lay at a depth of 72 km.
On August 18, prominent Turkish seismologist Naci Geryur statedWe see that the country has entered a period full of devastating earthquakes. Reminding that there is a high probability of dangerous earthquakes in Istanbul, Erdoğan recommended starting serious studies in this direction.
Previous earthquake of magnitude 5.9 dead in Mexico.