An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 jolted Afghanistan early on Saturday. According to the National Center for Seismology, the earthquake tremors were felt 213 km east of Fayzabad at 6:51 am today.
There were no reports of any damage to property or loss of lives due to the earthquake. Much of Afghanistan is situated on an earthquake-prone zone and seismic activity in the country is influenced by the subduction of the Arabian Plate to the west and the oblique subduction of the Indian Plate to the east.
In the past decade, more than 7,000 people in Afghanistan have died due to earthquakes.
On June 22, 2022, an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter Scale struck southeastern Afghanistan, affecting the provinces of Paktika and Khost, along with parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The tremors were also felt in parts of India.
Between 1,052 and 1,163 people died and more than 2,000 people were injured in Afghanistan and Pakistan due to the impact of the earthquake.
Earlier, in 2015, a major earthquake in northeast Afghanistan killed more than 200 people and neighbouring Pakistan.
In 2008, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake in western Pakistan killed 166 people and destroyed several villages from triggered landslides.
Earlier earthquakes in 2002 and in 1998 killed over a thousand and about 4,700 people respectively.