NNA - An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 struck near the Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan on Tuesday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) said.

The quake was at a depth of 86 km (53.4 miles) and occurred about 164 km east of Kunduz, EMSC said.

Tuesday’s earthquake comes after the US Geological Survey (USGS) recorded an earthquake of magnitude 5.3 near the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad in the early hours of Monday morning. At least eight people were killed in the overnight

Afghanistan is still reeling from a strong earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people and wiped out villages in the east of the country in June. ----Reuters

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