Magnitude 6.6 Afghanistan-Tajikistan Border Region
1998 May 30 06:22:28 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
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Magnitude | 6.6 | |
| Date-Time | 1998 05 30 06:22:28 UTC | ||
| Location | 37.10N 70.11E | ||
| Depth | 33.0 kilometers | ||
| Region | Afghanistan-Tajikistan Border Region | ||
| Reference |
40 km (25 miles) W of Feyzabad, Afghanistan 95 km (60 miles) SSE of Kulob (Kulyab), Tajikistan 135 km (85 miles) WSW of Khorugh, Tajikistan 300 km (185 miles) NNE of KABUL, Afghanistan |
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| Location Quality | Error estimate not available | ||
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Location Quality Parameters |
Not available | ||
| Source | USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) | ||
| Remarks | At least 4,000 people killed, many thousands injured and homeless in Badakhshan and Takhar Provinces, Afghanistan. Felt strongly at Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan. Felt at Kabul, Afghanistan. Felt (III) at Andijon and Samarqand; (II) at Toshkent, Uzbekistan. Also felt at Islamabad, Peshawar and Rawalpindi, Pakistan and Dushanbe, Tajikistan. |
NB:
The region name is an automatically generated name
from the Flinn-Engdahl (F-E) seismic and geographical regionalization scheme.
The boundaries of
these regions are defined at one-degree intervals and therefore differ from
irregular political boundaries.
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