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he 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake was a magnitude 7.

5 earthquake[1][2][3]
that struck South Asia on 26 October 2015, at 13:39 AFT, 14:09 PKT, 14:39
IST (09:09 UTC)[1][2][5] with the epicenter 45 km north of `Alaqahdari-ye
Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan.[6][7] An aftershock of magnitude 4.8 struck 40
minutes after the main earthquake;[8][9] thirteen more aftershocks of
magnitude 4.1 or greater had struck by the morning of 29 October.[4] The
main earthquake occurred at a depth of 210 km.[3]

It was reported on 26 October that more than 391 people were killed, mostly
in Pakistan.[10] Tremors were felt in Pakistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.[11]
[12][13] According to the United States Geological Survey, Pakistan falls in
the most active quake zone.[14] The earthquake was also felt in the Indian
cities of New Delhi, Amritsar[15], Chandigarh, Lucknow etc. and in the Indian
states of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, as far as in the western state of
Gujarat[16] and in the prefectures of Kashgar, Aksu, Hotan, and Kizilsu in
Xinjiang, China while damage was also reported in Afghan capital Kabul.[10]
[17] The tremor was even felt in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu, where
people initially thought that it was one of the sporadically recurring
aftershocks of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake. In 2005, tens of thousands
were killed in an earthquake centered in the Kashmir region.

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