Earthquake today: After Afghanistan, quake of magnitude 4.3 jolts Tajikistan
Click here! Speaking of the damages and injurious caused by the quake, Information Ministry spokesman Abdul Wahid Rayan said that Wednesday’s quake has injured at least 80 people and a landslide has blocked the main Herat-Torghondi highway, as reported by Associated Press. Moreover, the report added that the landslide also flattened all 700 homes in Chahak village, which was untouched by the tremors of previous days.
There are mounds of soil where dwellings used to be. But there were no deaths initially reported in Chahak because people have taken shelter in tents this week, fearing for their lives as tremors continue to rock Herat.
As per WHO report, an estimated 12,110 people (1,730 families) in five districts Zindajan, Injil, Gulran, Injil and Khosan in Herat Province have been impacted by the earthquake. The hardest hit villages are Naieb Rafi, Mahal Wardakah, Kushk, Sia Aab, Kajkal and Nawabad in Zindajan district, where 100 percent houses have been completely destroyed.
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