Another earthquake has hit western Afghanistan ... The governor of Herat province said there had been significant damage. Many phone and power lines are down. Aid agencies have said there is ...

The earthquake occurred early this morning at a shallow depth of 10 km with its epicenter about north of Herat city with no reports of damage or casualties so far.

with a fault line also running directly through Herat. When earthquakes strike, they are in Afghanistan's rural regions where the damage is most often at its peak. These remote communities often ...

We also know that it occurred very locally, it's just to the northwest of Herat city ... of earthquake that contains a lot of high frequency shaking, the kind of things that create damage ...