KABUL, Afghanistan — People had just seconds to flee their homes when the terrifying sound of earth cracking open reverberated across western Afghanistan's Herat province. Survivors grapple with aid cuts and the Taliban a year after massive Afghan earthquake Nobody knows for sure how many people died in a 6.3 magnitude earthquake on Oct. 7, 2023, or in the strong …
ZINDA JAN, Afghanistan — A 6.3 magnitude quake on Oct. 7 killed and injured thousands of people in Afghanistan’s west. Some families are living in canvas-colored tents in Zinda Jan district, the quake’s epicenter in the province of Herat, where every home was flattened. But they don’t forget.” The winds and storms continuously knock down and tear the tents of …
Afghan people carry the body of a relative killed in an earthquake to a burial site in Zenda Jan district in Herat province on Oct. 8, 2023. The Taliban-appointed deputy prime minister for economic affairs, Abdul Ghani Baradar, and his team visited the quake-affected region Monday to deliver “immediate relief assistance” and ensure “equitable and accurate distribution of aid,” authorities …
