Magnitude 5.6
Region HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
Date time 2025-09-04 16:56:25.2 UTC
Location 34.709 ; 70.744
Depth 10 km
Distance 109 km NW of Peshawar, Pakistan / pop: 1,218,000 / local time: 21:56:25.2 2025-09-04
41 km NNE of Jalālābād, Afghanistan / pop: 200,000 / local time: 21:26:25.2 2025-09-04
Source parameters reviewed by a seismologist
List of earthquakes in Afghanistan
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Geoscience Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia -- Canberra, Australia (AUST)
Seismological Survey of Serbia -- Belgrade, Serbia (BEO)
British Geological Survey -- Edinburgh, United Kingdom (BGS)
HUN-REN EPSS Kövesligethy Radó Seismological Observato -- Budapest, Hungary (BUD)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique -- Rabat, Morocco (CNRST)
Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi dan Geofisika -- Jakarta, Indonesia (BMKG)
GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) -- Potsdam, Germany (GFZ)
Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences -- Obninsk, Russia (GSRAS)
Instituto Portugues do Mar e da Atmosfera -- Lisbon, Portugal (IPMA)
Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia -- Rome, Italy (INGV) -- DOI: https://terremoti.ingv.it/en/iside
Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute -- Istanbul, Turkey (KOERI)
Landsamt fur Geologie, Rohstoffe und Bergbau -- Freiburg, Germany (LED)
Malaysian Meteorological Department -- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (MET)
National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey -- Golden, United States (NEIC)
The research institute NORSAR -- Kjeller, Norway (NORSAR)
EMSC -- Arpajon, France (SC4)
Republic Hydrometeorological Institute -- Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzogovina (SORS)
Seismological and Volcanological Observatory Center -- Dhamar, Yemen (YSVOC)
Institute of Geosciences, Polytechnic University of Tirana -- Tirana, Albania (IGEO)
Further information can be found at:
National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey -- Golden, United States (NEIC)
Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences -- Obninsk, Russia (GSRAS)
GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) -- Potsdam, Germany (GFZ)
EMSC is the European infrastructure for seismological products in
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This is a list of earthquakes in Afghanistan. Fairly moderate earthquakes have been very destructive in the country, particularly during the 21st century. This can be blamed on the population residing in mostly informal and adobe houses, which are extremely vulnerable to earthquake shaking.[1]
Tectonic setting
Afghanistan is situated near the southern extent of the Eurasian plate.[2]
Earthquakes
Date Place Lat
Lon
Deaths
Injuries Mag.
MMI
Comments
2025-08-31
Kunar
34.519 70.734 1,469+ 3,700+ 6.0 Mw IX Extreme damage [3]
2023-10-07
Herat
34.610 61.924 1,480 2,400 6.3 Mw VIII Four earthquakes and aftershocks/Extreme damage. [4]
2023-03-21
Badakhshan
36.523 70.979 21 424 6.5 Mw V Moderate damage, 21 deaths including 10 in Pakistan. [5]
2022-09-06 Badakhshan
36.649 70.629 6 9 4.8 Mw III Further damage [6]
2022-09-04
Kunar
34.662 70.701 18 42 5.1 Mw VII Moderate damage [7]
2022-07-18 Khost
33.108 69.470 44 5.1 Mw V Additional damage / aftershock [8]
2022-06-24 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
33.017 69.538 5 11 4.2 Mw VII All deaths in Afghanistan / aftershock [9]
2022-06-21
Khost
33.092 69.514 1,163 2,976 6.2 Mw IX Extreme damage/landslides [10]
2022-05-24 Hindu Kush 36.118 70.293 2 1 4.9 Mw VI Minor damage [11]
2022-02-05 Hindu Kush 36.445 71.117 3 5.8 Mw IV [12]
2022-01-17
Badghis
34.946 63.580 30 49 5.3 Mw VI [13]
2018-01-31 Hindu Kush 36.54 70.82 2 22 6.1 Mw IV
2016-04-10
Ishkashim 6 28 6.6 Mw V
2015-10-26
Hindu Kush 36.52 70.37 399 2,536 7.5 Mw VII
2013-04-24
Jalalabad-Mehtar Lam 34.53 70.22 18 130 5.6 Mw V [14]
2012-06-11
Baghlan
36.05 69.30 75 - 5.4, 5.7 V Doublet
[15]
2010-04-18
Samangan 35.71 67.68 11 - 5.6 VI [16]
2009-10-22
Hindu Kush 36.52 70.95 5 - 6.2 V [17]
2009-04-16
Near Kabul
34.19 70.08 19 51 5.2 Mw
VI Doublet
2005-12-12
Hindu Kush 36.28 71.11 5 1 6.5 Mw V
2002-03-25
Hindu Kush 35.93 69.19 2,000 3,000 6.1 Mw VII
2002-03-03
Hindu Kush 36.5 70.48 166 Some 7.4 Mw VI
1999-02-11
Kabul
34.3 69.36 70 500 6.0 Mw VI [18]
1998-05-30
Takhar
37.17 70.09 4,000–4,500 10,001 6.5 Mw VI
1998-02-04
Takhar
37.17 70.14 2,323 818 5.9 Mw VI
1994-05-01
Mazar-i-Sharif
36.901 67.163 160 330 6.1 Mw Severe damage [19]
1991-04-20 Badakhshan
36.416 70.912 4.1 Mw III 100 houses damaged [20]
1991-04-08 Badakhshan
37.457 68.273 1 6 5.5 Mw VII Moderate damage [21]
1991-01-31
Hindu Kush 35.99 70.42 848 200 6.9 Mw VII Extreme damage [22]
1990-07-13
Hindu Kush 36.415 70.789 43 2 6.4 Mw IV Deaths due to avalanche in Tajikistan.
[23]
1985-07-29 Hindu Kush 36.190 70.896 5 38 7.4 Mw VIII Severe damage in Pakistan and Tajikistan as well.
[24]
1984-02-16 Hindu Kush 36.431 70.826 4 13 6.4 Mw IV Severe damage [25]
1984-02-01 Nangarhar
34.616 70.484 1 35 6.1 VII Minor damage [26]
1983-12-31
Hindu Kush 36.37 70.34 12–26 60–483 7.2 Mb VII Severe damage [27]
1982-12-16 Baghlan
36.148 69.011 450 Many 6.6 Ms VI Severe damage [28]
1981-06-13 Samangan
36.176 67.827 1 2 5.5 Mw VI [29]
1918-11-15 Hindu Kush 36.202 70.711 7.8 Mw V [30]
1842-02-19 Jalalabad 34.4 70.5 500 Severe damage [31]
818-05-15 Hindu Kush 36.8 66.2 Many 7.5 Ms VIII Severe damage [32]
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