WASHINGTON: A reverse faulting at depths about 193 km below the Hindu Kush Range in north-eastern Afghanistan caused 8.1 magnitude yesterday’s earthquake in the Pak-Afghan region.
Up to the latest updates almost 300 people have lost their lives and more than 2000 people are injured in this deadly earthquake.
According to a report of US geological survey on the earthquake and its reasons, earthquake occurred on either a near-vertical reverse fault or a shallowly dipping thrust fault.
At the latitude of the earthquake, the Sub-continent moves northward and collides with Eurasia at a velocity of about 37 millimetres per year.
Active faults and their resultant earthquakes in northern Pakistan and adjacent parts of India and Afghanistan are the direct result of convergence between the South Asian and Eurasia plates.
This collision causes an uplift that produces the highest mountain peaks in the world like the Himalayas, the Karakoram, the Pamir and the Hindu Kush ranges.
Earthquakes, with depths between 70 and 300 km, are commonly termed “intermediate-depth” earthquakes.
Intermediate-depth earthquakes represent deformation within sub-ducted lithosphere rather than at the shallow plate interfaces between sub-ducting and overriding tectonic plates.
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