A severe earthquake in Pakistan on Tuesday evening (local time) left dead and injured. According to a local civil protection agency, at least nine people were killed and at least nine others were injured in the northern Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The number could still increase.
According to the Pakistan Meteorological Authority, the earthquake in the capital Islamabad had a magnitude of 6.8. The US earthquake monitor located the epicenter of the earthquake in the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan in the town of Jurm and gave the location a magnitude of 6.5. The German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam stated on its website that it had a magnitude of 6.5 and localized the earthquake at a depth of up to 200 kilometers.
Heavy earthquakes repeatedly occur in the Hindu Kush region and neighboring countries, where the Arabian, Indian and Eurasian plates meet. A devastating earthquake killed more than 1,000 people in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan in the summer of 2022.