List of earthquakes in Afghanistan

This is a list of earthquakes in Afghanistan:


Date Time‡ Place Latitude Longitude Fatalities Magnitude Comments Sources
January 31, 1991 23:03:33 Hindu Kush 35.993 70.423 848 6.9 [1]
February 20, 1998 12:18:06 Takhar Province
see February 1998 Afghanistan earthquake
36.479 71.086 2,323 5.9 [2]
May 30, 1998 06:22 UTC Takhar Province
see May 1998 Afghanistan earthquake
37.10 70.11 4,000-4,500 6.9 [3]
March 3, 2002 12:08:19 Hindu Kush
see 2002 Hindu Kush earthquakes
36.502 70.482 166 7.4 [4]
March 25, 2002 14:56:33 UTC Hindu Kush
see 2002 Hindu Kush earthquakes
35.93 69.19 1,000 6.1 [5]
December 12, 2005 21:47 UTC Hindu Kush
see 2005 Hindu Kush earthquake
36.28 71.11 5 6.5 [6]
April 16, 2009 01:57 Nr Kabul
see April 2009 Afghanistan earthquake
34.2 70.1 22 5.5 [7]
October 22, 2009 19:51:27 UTC Hindu Kush
see October 2009 Afghanistan earthquake
36.517 70.950 5 6.2 [8]
April 18, 2010 20:28:50 UTC Central Afghanistan
see 2010 Afghanistan earthquake
35.71 67.68 11 5.6 [9]
June 11, 2012 09:32 Baghlan province
see 2012 Afghanistan earthquakes
36.048 69.302 75 5.4, 5.7 Two earthquakes struck 25 minutes apart [10]
April 24, 2013 09:25:30 Jalalabad-Mehtar Lam area 34.526 70.220 18 5.5 [11]
October 26, 2015 19:39 AFT Jarm
see 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake
36.441 70.707 386 7.5 [12]

References

  1. "M6.9 - Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan". USGS. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  2. "M6.4 - Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan". USGS. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  3. Fathi, Nazila; O'Connor, Anahad (December 27, 2003). "Powerful Earthquake in Iran Kills Thousands]". The New York Times.
  4. "M7.4 - Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan". USGS. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  5. "M6.1 - Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan". USGS. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  6. USGS (September 4, 2009), PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog, Version 2008_06.1, United States Geological Survey
  7. "Two quakes rock east Afghanistan". BBC News. 2009-04-16. Archived from the original on 12 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
  8. USGS, M6.2 - Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan, United States Geological Survey
  9. USGS. "M5.6 - central Afghanistan". United States Geological Survey.
  10. BBC News (12 June 2012). "Afghan quakes: Landslide killed 80, says governor". BBC News. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  11. "55 Significant Earthquakes where Country = AFGHANISTAN". The Significant Earthquake Database. National Geophysical Data Center. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  12. "M 7.7 Earthquake 45km SSW of Jarm, Afghanistan". October 26, 2015. line feed character in |title= at position 17 (help)
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