Magnitude 7.4 HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
2002 March 03 12:08:19 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
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Magnitude | 7.4 | |
| Date-Time | 2002 03 03 12:08:19 UTC | ||
| Location | 36.50N 70.48E | ||
| Depth | 225.0 kilometers | ||
| Region | HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN | ||
| Reference |
65 km (40 miles) S of Feyzabad, Afghanistan 150 km (90 miles) SW of Khorugh, Tajikistan 150 km (95 miles) WNW of Chitral, Pakistan 250 km (155 miles) NNE of KABUL, Afghanistan |
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| Location Quality | Error estimate not available | ||
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Location Quality Parameters |
Not available | ||
| Source | USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) | ||
| Remarks | At least 150 people killed, several injured and 400 houses damaged or destroyed by a landslide that dammed and flooded Surkundara Valley, Samangan Province. At least 13 people killed at Kabul and Rostaq and 3 people killed in Bajaur, Pakistan. At least 300 houses destroyed in Badakhshan and Takhar Provinces. A 45 meter wide fissure opened in Xiker Reservoir in Xinjiang, China. Felt in much of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Felt (VI) at Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Felt (V) at Qarshi, Samarqand and Tashkent; (IV) at Andijon and Namangan, Uzbekistan. Felt (V) at Osh; (IV) at Batken and Sufi- Kurgan; (III) at Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Felt (III) at Shymkent, Taraz and Zhambyl, Kazakhstan. Also felt in India and Xinjiang, China. |
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->
