Another earthquake hit the country of Afghanistan on 2015-10-26 09:09:32 (UTC) according to the United State Geological Survey (USGS) (tinyurl.com/od3gobe). It registered M 7.5 on the Richter scale in the Hindu Kush region 270 km northeast of Kabul. The reverse fault movement was some 210 km underground, an intermediate depth. The destruction included some 4000 dwellings and killed at least 80 people.

Location of Afghanistan Earthquake. Map courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey

This is a fairly active area. According to the USGS report “at the latitude of the earthquake, the India subcontinent moves northward and collides with Eurasia at a velocity of about 37 mm/yr.”