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Magnitude 6.6 Afghanistan-Tajikistan Border Region
1998 May 30 06:22:28 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

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Regional Location

Magnitude 6.6
Date-Time 1998 05 30 06:22:28 UTC
Location 37.10N 70.11E
Depth 33.0 kilometers
Region Afghanistan-Tajikistan Border Region
Reference 40 km (25 miles) W of Feyzabad, Afghanistan
95 km (60 miles) SSE of Kulob (Kulyab), Tajikistan
135 km (85 miles) WSW of Khorugh, Tajikistan
300 km (185 miles) NNE of KABUL, Afghanistan
Location Quality Error estimate not available
Location Quality
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Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Remarks At least 4,000 people killed, many thousands injured and homeless in Badakhshan and Takhar Provinces, Afghanistan. Felt strongly at Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan. Felt at Kabul, Afghanistan. Felt (III) at Andijon and Samarqand; (II) at Toshkent, Uzbekistan. Also felt at Islamabad, Peshawar and Rawalpindi, Pakistan and Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

NB: The region name is an automatically generated name from the Flinn-Engdahl (F-E) seismic and geographical regionalization scheme. The boundaries of these regions are defined at one-degree intervals and therefore differ from irregular political boundaries. More->

 


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