{"id":40488,"date":"2025-11-03T00:38:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=40488"},"modified":"2025-11-03T00:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:38:59","slug":"c8jrw12d3edoat_mediumrssat_campaignrss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/11\/03\/c8jrw12d3edoat_mediumrssat_campaignrss\/","title":{"rendered":"Casualties feared after magnitude-6.3 earthquake hits Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">An earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan near Mazar-e Sharif, one of the country&#8217;s largest cities around 20:30 GMT (01:00 local time).<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.3 and a depth of 28km (17 miles), according to the US Geological Survey. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The agency also warned of &#8220;significant casualties&#8221; and &#8220;potentially widespread&#8221; disaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Writing in a post on X around 02:00 local time (21:30 GMT), a Taliban spokesman in Balkh, of which Mazar-e Sharif is the capital, said they had received &#8220;reports of minor injuries and superficial damages from all districts of the province&#8221;. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Most of the injuries were caused by people falling from tall buildings,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Mazar-e Sharif is home to more than 500,000 people. Many of the city&#8217;s residents rushed to the streets when the quake struck, as they feared their houses would collapse, AFP reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Taliban spokesman in Balkh also posted a video on X appearing to show debris strewn across the ground at the Blue Mosque, a local landmark in Mazar-e-Sharif.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The religious complex is believed to house the tomb of the first Shia Imam &#8211; a religious leader believed to hold divine knowledge. It&#8217;s now a site where pilgrims gather to pray or celebrate religious events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The quake on Monday comes after a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan&#8217;s mountainous eastern region in late August, killing more than 1,000 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Afghanistan is very prone to earthquakes because of its location on top of a number of fault lines where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates meet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Casualties #feared #magnitude6.3 #earthquake #hits #Afghanistan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan near Mazar-e Sharif, one of the country&#8217;s largest cities around 20:30 GMT (01:00 local&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40490,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40488\/revisions\/40490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}