Quake hits Afghanistan after Solomon Islands

A powerful earthquake of 6.2magnitude hit Afghanistan on Tuesday, 3rd April, 8:00am. The quake hit near the Afghan town of Faizabad near the towering Hindu Kush mountain range, also jolting Pakistan and India.

The government announced more than 110 people were killed in four days of flooding and avalanches but no reports of casualties in the quake.

The quake sent people running into the open in panic across mountainous, quake-prone areas in northeastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan and India, all of which have suffered devastating earthquakes in the past few years.

Afghanistan is often hit by earthquakes, especially around the Hindu Kush mountain range that is near the collision of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates, where seismic activity is high.