KABUL, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- At least 13 persons were injured due to a tremor that jolted eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on Thursday night, provincial director for Information and Culture, Qureshi Badlon, said Friday.
According to the official, all the injured persons were from Dara-i-Noor district, although the quake struck several districts including the provincial capital Jalalabad.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, two earthquakes, each 4.7 and 5.6 magnitudes on the Richter scale, jolted Nangarhar on Thursday morning and night, respectively.
The tremors follow a series of quakes with the 6.0-magnitude quake that struck Nangarhar's neighboring Kunar on Sunday night which left more than 2,200 dead, more than 3,600 injured, and nearly 7,000 houses destroyed. ■
