What the records say
- When
- 31 Jan 1991
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.4
- Where
- Afghanistan
- Coordinates
- 35.99° N, 70.42° E
- Deaths
- 848
- Injuries
- 200
- Damage musd
- 36
- Intensity mmi
- 7
- Depth km
- 142
1991 Hindu Kush earthquake
Earthquake in Afghanistan
The 1991 Hindu Kush earthquake severely affected Afghanistan, Pakistan and the USSR on 1 February. It was an intermediate-depth earthquake with a hypocenter 143.2 km (89.0 mi) beneath the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan. The shock measured 6.8 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme).
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A 6.4 Hindu Kush earthquake causes severe damage in northeast Afghanistan, leaving 848 dead and 200 injured”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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