There were 50 earthquakes with over 5 magnitude, including the July 20, 2025 quake of 7.4 magnitude and three 6.6 magnitude earthquakes, preceding the July 30, 2025 quake of 8.8 magnitude. The 7.4 magnitude quake on July 20, 2025 may be a foreshock
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The study achieved “significant improvement” in hypocentral location of five earthquakes that occurred before the installation of the world-wide standardized seismograph network (WWSSN)
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In a short span of about a week, a region about 40 km from Herat, Afghanistan was struck by four
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The first shallow focus earthquake of 6.3 magnitude, which occurred near the far western terminus of the Hindu Kush Mountain
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Read MoreDespite the April 25, 2015 Nepal earthquake being 7.8 magnitude, shallow focus, most of the vulnerable, regular, four-storey buildings escaped
Read MoreThe May 12, 2015 earthquake of 7.3 magnitude that struck 68 km west of Namche Bazar, close to Mount Everest
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The 7.6-magnitude quake that occurred at a depth of nearly 34 km below the ocean floor was due to the
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