6.2-magnitude quake hits Afghanistan

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Source: Agence France Presse

KABUL — A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the border area between northeast Afghanistan and Pakistan on Friday, shaking buildings in both countries, officials said.

The quake struck at 12:21 am (1951 GMT Thursday) at a depth of 196 kilometres (122 miles) in the Hindu Kush area, the US Geological Survey said.

It said the epicentre was 77 kilometres south-southeast of Feyzabad in Afghanistan, near the Tajikistan border, and 115 kilometres northwest of Chitral in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

In Kabul, the ground shook and electricity supplies were disrupted, an AFP reporter said.

"It was a major earthquake. The intensity was 6.3 on the Richter scale and the epicentre was in the Hindu Kush mountains," said Riaz Khan, a senior official at Pakistan's meteorological department.

"It was felt in most parts of Pakistan, including Kashmir, and also in Afghanistan," he told AFP.

"So far we have no reports of human losses but there may be some slight damage in the border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan," he added.


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Don't we have military there?

[opihimoimoi]

1. Oh Noes...the Kush region is famous for its Afghan strain....many strains have Kush names

I hope they are not terribly harmed...I meant the people...LOL

[JuniperLea]

2. The whole world is skaking today...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/

All over the US too...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/

California is pretty active too... but that's normal.

[JuniperLea]

3. Now it's shaking...

In the part of Russia that Sarah Palin can see from her porch.

[winyanstaz]

5. bwhahahaa

[winyanstaz]

4. I am trying to keep an eye on the quakes...

as a few years ago a number of people in the Seattle area all reported the same dreams...without knowing each other. The dreams were all about water running out of the puget sound and people running out because they saw ol shipwrecks on the bottom....then a giant tsunami...
so...if the water runs out..I am running for the mountains :P

[AtheistCrusader]

6. If something big enough to actually temporarily drain puget sounds happens

you aren't going anywhere. Hell, I'm in the foothills, and I probably wouldn't make it either.

[winyanstaz]

8. You sound like a neighbor...I live in the foothills near Arlington...

Lets hope it never happens..

[JuniperLea]

7. I keep an eye on quakes because...

I was born and raised in So Cal and grew up shaking:) And because I work in a big ol' skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles... which is situated on a fault that is long overdue. This building sways at the slightest provocation! They tell me it's anchored deep in the ground... but that doesn't mean much when the ground isn't stable, now does it?

[Duer 157099]

9. Probably not a good day to be holed up in a cave

For all we know an earthquake will get bin Laden before anyone else ever does