The earthquake's epicenter and the extent of any damage or casualties are yet to be determined. Authorities are currently assessing the situation, and further information will be provided as it becomes available.
Earlier on Sunday, the Afghanistan Ministry of Disaster Management said that more than 9,000 people were injured in the tremors but later retracted and said over 2,000 received injuries. The spokesperson told the local media that the "tally was a mistake".
Afghanistan earthquake: Disaster authority spokesperson Mohammad Abdullah Jan said four villages in the Zenda Jan district in Herat province bore the brunt of the quake and aftershocks.
Earthquake: People in Afghanistan felt a spell of three tremors within an hour. The magnitude of the earthquake was from 5.1 to 6.2. No incident of any damage has been reported so far.
Japan had issued a tsunami advisory on Thursday following a strong earthquake of 6.6 magnitude near its outlying islands in the Pacific Ocean. No damage has been reported.
The advisory, the second-lowest of a four-stage warning system, asks people on islands in the Izu chain, which stretches south from the Tokyo region on the main Japanese island of Honshu, to stay away from coasts and river mouths.
Uttarakhand suffered two back-to-back earthquakes after several states in North India were jolted by tremors on Tuesday. The second tremor of 4.3 magnitude was felt in Pithoragarh district at around 5:04 pm.
Nepal was struck by two earthquakes within a period of 26 minutes on Tuesday. The magnitudes of these earthquakes was recorded 4.6 and 6.2 on the Richter Scale respectively.
An earthquake of 6.2 magnitude hit Nepal on October 3 and tremors were felt all across North India including Uttarakhand and Delhi-NCR regions.
According to the National Center for Seismology, the quake was reported at around 6:15 pm from the North Garo Hills.
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Taiwan earthquake: According to USGS, the epicentre of the earthquake was found to be at latitude: 26.434°N and longitude: 125.303°E, respectively.
The video that is going viral on social media claiming to be related to an earthquake in Morocco has been fact-checked, and it has been confirmed that the video is from Syria, not Morocco. Despite the strong tremors of the earthquake, the people in the video were seen continuing to pray in a mosque.
The startling death and devastation wreaked by Mediterranean storm Daniel pointed to the storm’s intensity, but also the vulnerability of a nation torn apart by chaos for more than a decade.
The search and rescue operations being conducted by the Moroccan teams had a helping hand from Spain, Britain, and Qatar to find survivors from the 6.8 magnitude quake that struck the High Atlas Mountains late on Friday (September 8), toppling several buildings.
The sheer scale of the disaster in the aftermath of the quake can be imagined that the people slept in the streets of Marrakech for a third straight night as soldiers and other international aid teams carried on their rescue operation into the remote mountain towns in trucks and helicopters.
Morocco earthquake: The death toll from a strong earthquake that struck Morocco on Friday night has surpassed 2,000, according to country's interior ministry.
According to the Morocco Interior Ministry, 2,012 people were killed and 2,059 injured in the earthquake of magnitude 6.8 with an epicentre some 72 km southwest of Marrakech.
An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 with an epicentre some 72 km southwest of Marrakech struck Morocco late Friday night, felling buildings including a UNESCO World Heritage site. The earthquake survivors spent the Saturday night in a huddle in the open on the High Atlas Mountains.
Several buildings were toppled in the powerful earthquake which, according to Morocco's geophysical centre, struck in the Ighil area of the High Atlas with a magnitude of 7.2. The U.S. Geological Survey read the quake's magnitude at 6.8 on Ritcher scale.
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