Magnitude 6.1 HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
2002 March 25 14:56:33 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
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Magnitude | 6.1 | |
| Date-Time | 2002 03 25 14:56:33 UTC | ||
| Location | 36.06N 69.31E | ||
| Depth | 8.0 kilometers | ||
| Region | HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN | ||
| Reference |
160 km (100 miles) SW of Feyzabad, Afghanistan 170 km (105 miles) SE of Shaartuz, Tajikistan 170 km (105 miles) N of KABUL, Afghanistan 210 km (130 miles) NNW of Jalalabad, 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 1,000 people killed, several hundred injured and several thousand homeless in Baghlan Province. At least 1,500 houses destroyed or damaged at Nahrin and several hundred more in other areas of Baghlan Province. Landslides blocked many roads in the epicentral area. Felt strongly in much of northern Afghanistan. Also felt in the Islamabad-Peshawar area, Pakistan and at 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->
