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24/06/22 07:08 AM IST

Afghanistan quake kills 1,000 people

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  • A powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan  killing 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more in one of the country’s deadliest quakes in decades.
Earthquake 
  • These are large, thin plates that comprise the Earth’s crust and the upper mantle (commonly called the “lithosphere”) and are constantly moving.
  • Earthquakes occur along fault lines, cracks in Earth’s crust where tectonic plates meet.
  • They occur where plates are subducting, spreading, slipping, or colliding.
Why Afghanistan? 
  • Afghanistan is earthquake-prone because it’s located in the mountainous Hindu Kush region, which is part of the Alpide belt — the second most seismically active region in the world after the Pacific Ring of Fire.
  • Slow collisions between the Indian subcontinent and the Eurasian tectonic plate are thought to be the cause of the extremely-common earthquakes in this region.
  • The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has called the Hindu Kush region “one of the most seismically hazardous regions on earth”, boasting one of the highest rates of deep earthquakes in the world.
Source- Indian Express 

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