Afghanistan suffers another earthquake

An earthquake in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, which jolted the country just before midnight Friday, has left at least 12 people injured. The injury were as a result of a stampede at the Nangarhar University in the provincial capital of Jalalabad, as students were trying to run out of a building during the quake, said a spokesman for the provincial governor.

The magnitude 6.2 quake struck at around 11:45 p.m. on Friday and lasted just about a minute.

The quake was also felt in the capital, Kabul with running getting out of their safety. The U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said two regions of Afghanistan were affected - east and north-east - but the expected impact was "small to medium scale." The quake's epicentre was in the Zebak district of Badakhshan province in the country's north, but no casualties from the area had been reported, OCHA said.

Damages were also limited in neighbouring Takhar province, eastern Nagarhar, Kunar and Laghman provinces and 16 houses damaged in total, OCHA said.

However, the impact of the damage was higher in Pakistan where overnight reports said that more than 30 people were injured as a result of the earthquake, as houses or walls collapsed in the northwestern city of Peshawar. A total of 41 people were taken to hospitals in the city, according to doctors and rescue officials.

Friday's quake comes after a more-powerful earthquake jolted Afghanistan, Pakistan and India in October, killing at least 115 people and injuring around 500 others in several provinces in Afghanistan.

An earthquake in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, which jolted the country just before midnight Friday, has left at least 12 people injured. The injury were as a result of a stampede at the Nangarhar University in the provincial capital of Jalalabad, as students were trying to run out of a building during the quake, said a spokesman for the provincial governor.

The magnitude 6.2 quake struck at around 11:45 p.m. on Friday and lasted just about a minute.

The quake was also felt in the capital, Kabul with running getting out of their safety. The U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said two regions of Afghanistan were affected - east and north-east - but the expected impact was "small to medium scale." The quake's epicenter was in the Zebak district of Badakhshan province in the country's north, but no casualties from the area had been reported, OCHA said.

Damages were also limited in neighboring Takhar province, eastern Nagarhar, Kunar and Laghman provinces and 16 houses damaged in total, OCHA said.

However, the impact of the damage was higher in Pakistan where overnight reports said that more than 30 people were injured as a result of the earthquake, as houses or walls collapsed in the northwestern city of Peshawar. A total of 41 people were taken to hospitals in the city, according to doctors and rescue officials.

Friday's quake comes after a more-powerful earthquake jolted Afghanistan, Pakistan and India in October, killing at least 115 people and injuring around 500 others in several provinces in Afghanistan.