{"id":466473,"date":"2022-06-22T09:43:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T06:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/afghanistan-earthquake-leaves-at-least-255-people-dead\/"},"modified":"2022-06-22T09:43:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T06:43:50","slug":"afghanistan-earthquake-leaves-at-least-255-people-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/afghanistan-earthquake-leaves-at-least-255-people-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"#Afghanistan earthquake leaves at least 255 people dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e70d6cc055\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e70d6cc055\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/afghanistan-earthquake-leaves-at-least-255-people-dead\/#%E2%80%9CAfghanistan_earthquake_leaves_at_least_255_people_dead%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Afghanistan earthquake leaves at least 255 people dead&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAfghanistan_earthquake_leaves_at_least_255_people_dead%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Afghanistan earthquake leaves at least 255 people dead&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/newspress-collage-22753584-1655879521046.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;1655865298\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>An earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing at least 255 people, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Information remained scarce on the magnitude 6 temblor that struck Paktika province, but it comes as the international community largely has left Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover of the country last year amid the chaotic withdrawal of the U.S. military from the longest war in its history.<\/p>\n<p>That likely will complicate any relief efforts for this country of 38 million people.<\/p>\n<p>The state-run Bakhtar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> agency reported the death toll and said rescuers were arriving by helicopter. The news agency\u2019s director-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>, Abdul Wahid Rayan, wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> that 90 houses have been destroyed in Paktika and dozens of people are believed tr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed under the rubble.<\/p>\n<p>Footage from Paktika province near the Pakistan border showed victims being carried into helicopters to be airlifted from the area. Images widely circulating online from the province showed destroyed stone houses, with residents picking through clay bricks and other rubble.<\/p>\n<p>Bakhtar posted footage of a resident receiving IV fluids from a plastic chair outside the rubble of his home and others sprawled on gurneys.<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/afghanistan\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA severe earthquake shook four districts of Paktika province, killing and injuring hundreds of our countrymen and destroying dozens of houses,\u201d Bilal Karimi, a deputy spokesman for the Taliban government, separately wrote on Twitter. \u201cWe urge all aid agencies to send teams to the area immediately to prevent further catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In neighboring Khost province, authorities believed there are also dozens injured and dead in the earthquake as well, Rayan said.<\/p>\n<p>Neighboring Pakistan\u2019s Meteorological Department put the earthquake at a magnitude 6.1. Tremors were felt in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, and elsewhere in the eastern Punjab province.<\/p>\n<p>The European seismological agency, EMSC, said the earthquake\u2019s tremors were felt over 310 miles by 119 million people across Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.<\/p>\n<p>Mountainous Afghanistan and the larger region of South Asia along the Hindu Kush mountains, where the Indian tectonic plate collides with the Eurasian plate to the north, has long been vulnerable to devastating earthquakes. Poor construction for homes, hospitals and other buildings put them at risk of collapse in earthquakes, while landslides remain commons across the mountains of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, a major earthquake that struck the country\u2019s northeast killed over 200 people in Afghanistan and neighboring northern Pakistan. A similar 6.1 earthquake in 2002 killed about 1,000 people in northern Afghanistan. And in 1998, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tremors in Afghanistan\u2019s remote northeast killed at least 4,500 people.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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