Urgent: 5.1-magnitude quake hits Afghanistan-Tajikistan border region -- GFZ-Xinhua

Urgent: 5.1-magnitude quake hits Afghanistan-Tajikistan border region -- GFZ

Source: Xinhua| 2026-11-16 02:28:00|Editor: huaxia

BEIJING, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted Afghanistan-Tajikistan border region at 1748 GMT on Sunday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said.

The epicenter, with a depth of 93.5 km, was initially determined to be at 36.06 degrees north latitude and 71.04 degrees east longitude. ■

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