Over a week since a major earthquake decimated his village in northwest Afghanistan, Noor Ahmad is on a harrowing hunt to find his 5-year-old. The destroyed home of Noor Ahmad and his family in ...

In June 2022, a powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan, flattening stone and mud-brick homes. The quake killed at least 1,000 people and injured about 1,500.

Afghanistan experienced multiple earthquakes recently, including a 4.2 magnitude quake on August 6. The region, prone to ...

Kabul, Afghanistan — A strong earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing more than 1,000 people, according to officials from the country's ruling Taliban regime.

In 2015, a major earthquake that struck the country’s northeast killed over 200 people in Afghanistan and neighboring northern Pakistan. A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in 2002 killed about 1,000 ...

In June 2022, a powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan, flattening stone and mud-brick homes. The quake killed at least 1,000 people and injured about 1,500.

More than 90% of those killed in a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan were women and children, UNICEF said Wednesday, as fresh tremors terrorized residents of villages flattened by the ...

ISLAMABAD — A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Sunday, just over a week after deadly quakes and aftershocks that flattened entire villages in the same province.

Aid groups scrambled on Thursday to reach victims of a powerful earthquake that rocked eastern Afghanistan, killing more than 1,000 people in an area blighted by poor infrastructure, as the ...

The earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday morning measured magnitude 5.9, making it moderately strong. Every year, about 1,300 quakes of similar strength occur around the ...

A magnitude 6 earthquake in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 1,000 people Wednesday morning. The earthquake’s tremors were felt over 310 miles by 119 million people across the country.