Following a slew of devastating quakes on Saturday, officials were forced to relocate relief and rescue teams already on the ground when a 6.3 magnitude earthquake slammed Herat in western Afghanistan on Wednesday.
Disaster management spokesman Janan Sayeeq told Reuters that there were no preliminary reports of injuries brought on by the most recent earthquake.
The governor’s office in Herat stated in a statement that “huge losses” had been sustained by some regions that were adjacent to areas that had been completely levelled by earlier quakes.
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The Taliban-run government in Afghanistan reported that thousands of homes had been destroyed by earthquakes a few days earlier in the northwest of the city of Herat, resulting in at least 2,400 fatalities and more than 2,000 injuries.
“Mobile medical teams and officials have been working together and have transferred several injured people to hospital,” according to the governor’s office.
The most recent earthquake, according to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), was magnitude 6.3 and occurred at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles).
(Reuters)
