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A 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit Hindu Kush mountains in northern Afghanistan on Monday, as recorded by the US Geological Survey with the tremors felt as far away as Kashmir and Delhi. The epicentre was 224 kilometers (140 miles) deep near the Wakhan Corridor, the narrow strip between Tajikistan and Pakistan. Just two years ago in 2013, a similar 5.6-magnitude earthquake killed 13 ...

Today’s 7.8 urvey, due to frontal thrust between the subducting India plate and the overriding Eurasia plate to the north. The India plate is converging with Eurasia at a rate of 45 mm per year towards the north-northeast, driving the uplift of the Himalayan mountain range, it said. Though Nepal or India do not fall in the Pacific Ring of ...