{"id":17098,"date":"2025-11-03T22:50:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=17098"},"modified":"2025-11-03T22:50:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:50:28","slug":"at-least-20-people-killed-as-powerf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2025\/11\/03\/at-least-20-people-killed-as-powerf\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 20 people killed as powerful quake hits north Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>At least 20 people killed as powerful quake hits north Afghanistan <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>A powerful <\/strong><strong data-start=\"205\" data-end=\"233\">6.0-magnitude earthquake<\/strong><strong> struck <\/strong><strong data-start=\"241\" data-end=\"264\">eastern Afghanistan<\/strong><strong> late last night, shaking the mountainous region near the border with <\/strong><strong data-start=\"334\" data-end=\"346\">Pakistan<\/strong><strong>. Tremors were felt in <\/strong><strong data-start=\"369\" data-end=\"382\">Jalalabad<\/strong><strong>, the capital of <\/strong><strong data-start=\"399\" data-end=\"421\">Nangarhar Province<\/strong><strong>, around <\/strong><strong data-start=\"430\" data-end=\"453\">midnight local time<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"458\" data-end=\"607\"><strong>While details on casualties or damage are still emerging, the quake has raised concerns in a country already prone to devastating seismic activity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"609\" data-end=\"798\"><strong>In <\/strong><strong data-start=\"612\" data-end=\"628\">October 2023<\/strong><strong>, a major earthquake in <\/strong><strong data-start=\"652\" data-end=\"670\">Herat Province<\/strong><strong>, in western Afghanistan, killed at least <\/strong><strong data-start=\"712\" data-end=\"728\">2,400 people<\/strong><strong>, underscoring the region\u2019s vulnerability to such natural disasters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"800\" data-end=\"1061\"><strong>Afghanistan lies along the <\/strong><strong data-start=\"827\" data-end=\"856\">Hindu Kush mountain range<\/strong><strong>, a seismically active zone where the <\/strong><strong data-start=\"894\" data-end=\"906\">Eurasian<\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong data-start=\"911\" data-end=\"937\">Indian tectonic plates<\/strong><strong> converge. Earthquakes are frequent in the area, often resulting in significant loss of life and damage to infrastructure.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 people killed as powerful quake hits north Afghanistan A powerful 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan late last night, shaking the mountainous region near the border with Pakistan. Tremors were felt in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Province, around midnight local time. While details on casualties or damage are still emerging, the quake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2299],"tags":[3601],"class_list":["post-17098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-afghanistan-earthquake"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17100,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17098\/revisions\/17100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}