The
2002 Hindu Kush earthquakes were two
earthquakes which hit the
Hindu Kush mountain range area in Afghanistan on March 3 and March 25, 2002.
The March 3 earthquake
At 12:08:19 UTC a 7.4 tremor hit an area 65 km (40 miles) S of
Feyzabad,
Afghanistan. At least 150 people were killed, several injured and 400 houses damaged or destroyed by a landslide that dammed and flooded
Surkundara Valley,
Samangan Province. At least 13 people were killed at
Kabul and
Rostaq and 3 people killed in
Bajaur,
Pakistan. At least 300 houses were destroyed in
Badakhshan and
Takhar Provinces. A 45 meter wide fissure opened in
Xiker Reservoir in
Xinjiang,
China. This was a deep
focus event and was felt in much of Afghanistan and
Pakistan. Felt also in
Tajikistan,
Uzbekistan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Kazakhstan and
India.
The March 25 earthquake
At 14:56:33 UTC a 6.1 tremor hit an area 160 km (100 miles) SW of Feyzabad, Afghanistan. At least 1,000 people were killed, several hundred injured and several thousand homeless in
Baghlan Province. At least 1,500 houses were destroyed or damaged at
Nahrin and several hundred more in other areas of Baghlan Province. Landslides blocked many roads in the epicentral area. This was a shallow focus event and was felt strongly in much of northern Afghanistan. Also felt in the Islamabad-Peshawar area, Pakistan and at Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
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