What the records say
- When
- 9 Jun 1956
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.6
- Where
- Afghanistan
- Coordinates
- 35.10° N, 67.50° E
- Deaths
- 100
- Depth km
- 60
1956 Baghlan earthquake
Earthquake in Afghanistan
The 1956 Afghanistan earthquake occurred in the early morning of 10 June 1956, causing considerable damage and casualties in the area of Kabul, Bamyan and the Hindu Kush mountain range. It had a magnitude of 7.3 on the surface-wave magnitude scale. The total number of deaths were between 300 and as high as 900. According to Radio Afghanistan it was the heaviest registered earthquake ever in Afghanistan.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page