Afghan Disaster Management Authority officials said on Wednesday that a 6.1-magnitude earthquake in the country’s east has killed at least 130 people. disaster officials. The administration made the announcement on Wednesday. He added that deaths have also been reported in Nangarhar and Khost provinces while authorities are investigating other victims. The USGS also said a 6.1 Richter earthquake also rocked parts of Pakistan in the early hours of this Wednesday. The authorities added that the quake struck 44 km from the city of Khost in southeastern Afghanistan and was at a depth of 51 km.
The Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center said in a tweet on Twitter that the tremors were felt by 119 million people in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India at a distance of about 500 km.
The quake was felt in the Afghan capital, Kabul, as well as in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, according to eyewitness accounts published by the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center website and Twitter users.
“Long and strong aftershocks,” an eyewitness from Kabul wrote on the center’s website. “It was intense,” said another witness from Peshawar in northwest Pakistan.
