INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 jolted Afghanistan on Monday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said.As per the NCS,
increased damage to structures and casualties, compared to deeper earthquakes, which lose energy as they travel to the surface.Earlier in
by an earthquake of 4.3 magnitude, as per NCS.As per the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA),
Afghanistan remains highly vulnerable to natural disasters, including seasonal flooding, landslides and earthquakes.These frequent
earthquakes in Afghanistan cause damage to vulnerable communities, which are already grappling with decades of conflict and
history of powerful earthquakes, and the Hindu Kush Mountain range is a geologically active area where quakes occur every year, according to
the Red Cross.Afghanistan sits on numerous fault lines between the Indian and the Eurasian tectonic plates, with a fault line also running
directly through Herat.Source: ANI--Agencies
