#herat earthquake

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Jeudi soir. Une fois de plus, Marie nous avait concocté un dîner de roi pour fêter le retour de Vitaly, le compagnon de Zoé.

Coutumier du fait, Alex avait sélectionné un Pauillac et un Margaux proche de l'indécence. Une divine soirée en vérité. Pleine de rires, de joie, d'amitié...

Petit dormeur depuis l'école de recrue, je me levai à l'aube du vendredi. Je consultai mes emails, épluchai mes alertes immobilières avant de jeter un coup d'œil aux actualités.

Les urubus des chaînes d'information relayaient déjà en boucle l'inconcevable. Le déluge d'Al-Aqsa qu'ils martelaient sans cesse, ravis de détenir là une punch line de premier ordre dont ils allaient pouvoir se gargariser à outrance.

Les visages de tous mes amis défilèrent sous mes yeux. Certains dont les familles avaient été décimées dans les camps durant les heures les sombres de l'hydre teuton. Mon cœur se serra en pensant à Vi. Aux siens sur lesquels s'abattait le déluge des assassins. Une chanson de Cesaria Evoria me revint en mémoire... Petit pays, je t'aime beaucoup. Petit petit, je l'aime beaucoup.

Un spleen incommensurable baigna ma journée de samedi. Zoé me dit que Vi est resté terré dans sa chambre.

Dimanche. Il fait encore nuit quand je réveille. Soucieux, j'allume la TV... De par sa phonétique amusante, ce mot est facilement mémorisé par tous les enfants persanophones. Il divertit les bambins autant qu'il terrorise les adultes. Zel-zela. Derrière ce mot à la consonance débonnaire, relevant presque de l'onomatopée, se terre l'épouvante. Zel-Zela. Dimanche. Les actualités. Le sort s'était à nouveau acharné sur le pays de mes parents. Ce pays meurtri où il faisait si bon vivre jusque dans les années soixante. Zel-Zela, tremblement de terre. Un séisme qui, en quelques minutes, a envoyé ad patres plus de 2500 miséreux dans la région d'Hérat. De crève-la-faim éreintés par une guerre sans fin. De laissés-pour-compte opprimés par des fascistes religieux.

Entre les tragédies ukrainiennes et israéliennes, je le sais, le monde ne lèvera pas un doigt pour Aryana. Si ce n'est le majeur.

Comme pour rappeler que ces afghans -un genre de bougnoule venu d'Asie mineure- alimentent l'ignoble flot migratoire qui déferle "chez nous" pour grignoter notre confort.

Petit pays, je t'aime beaucoup. Petit petit, je l'aime beaucoup. Petit pays, tout le monde s'en fout.

Jeudi, terrorisme en Israël. Jeudi, le jour de Jupiter, le roi des dieux. Jupiter, le père des Cieux.

Dimanche, terreur en Afghanistan. Dimanche, jour du seigneur. Dimanche, jour du Saigneur.

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Sayed Kazim Rafiqi, 42, a Herat city resident, said he had never seen such devastation before with the majority of houses damaged and “people terrified.” Rafiqi and others headed to the hospital to donate much-needed blood. “We have to help in any way possible,” he said. The earthquakes on Oct. 7 flattened whole villages in Herat, in one of the most destructive quakes in the country’s recent history. More than 90% of the people killed a week ago were women and children, U.N. officials reported Thursday. Taliban officials said the earlier quakes killed more than 2,000 people across the province. The epicenter was in Zenda Jan district, where the majority of casualties and damage occurred. The initial quake, numerous aftershocks and a second 6.3-magnitude quake on Wednesday flattened villages, destroying hundreds of mud-brick homes that could not withstand such force. Schools, health clinics and other village facilities also collapsed. Besides rubble and funerals after that devastation, there was little left of the villages in the region’s dusty hills. Survivors are struggling to come to terms with the loss of multiple family members and in many places, living residents are outnumbered by volunteers who came to search the debris and dig mass graves.

You can donate to the United Nations Refugee Agency to help with this and all the other folks currently facing displacement worldwide.

You can also call you representative about having your government fund the UN Refugee Agency

[warningsine]

CHAHAK, Afghanistan (AP) — Another strong earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier one killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in Herat province in what was one of the most destructive quakes in the country’s recent history.

The magnitude 6.3 earthquake on Wednesday was about 28 kilometers (17 miles) outside Herat, the provincial capital, and 10 kilometers (6 miles) deep, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It triggered a landslide that blocked the main Herat-Torghondi highway, Information Ministry spokesman Abdul Wahid Rayan said.

Janan Sayiq, a spokesman for the Afghan Taliban government’s national disaster authority said Wednesday’s earthquake killed at least one person and injured around 120 others.

The aid group Doctors Without Borders said Herat Regional Hospital received 117 who got injured in Wednesday’s temblor. The group, also known by its French acronym MSF, said it sent additional medical supplies to the hospital and was setting up four more medical tents at the facility.

“Our teams are assisting in triaging emergency cases and managing stabilized patients admitted in the medical tents,” MSF said on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Wednesday’s quake also flattened all 700 homes in Chahak village, which was untouched by the tremors of previous days. Now there are mounds of soil where dwellings used to be. But no deaths have been reported so far in Chahak because people have taken shelter in tents this week, fearing for their lives as tremors continue to rock Herat.

Villagers are distraught over the loss of their homes and livestock, often their only possessions, and worry about the coming harsh winter months. Some said they had never seen an earthquake before and wondered when the shaking of the ground would stop.

Many said they have no peace of mind inside the tents for fear the “ground will open and swallow us at any moment.”

The epicenter of Saturday’s quake — also of the same magnitude 6.3 — was about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of the provincial capital, and several aftershocks have been strong.

Taliban officials said more than 2,000 had died across Herat after the earlier quakes. They subsequently said the quakes killed and injured thousands but didn’t give a breakdown of casualties.

Besides rubble and funerals after Saturday’s devastation, there is little left of the villages in the region’s dusty hills. Survivors are struggling to come to terms with the loss of multiple family members and in many places, living residents are outnumbered by volunteers who had come to search the debris and dig mass graves.

In Naib Rafi, a village that previously had about 2,500 residents, people said almost no one was still alive besides men who were working outside when the quake struck. Survivors worked all day with excavators to dig long trenches for mass burials.

On a barren field in the district of Zinda Jan, a bulldozer removed mounds of earth to clear space for a long row of graves.

“It is very difficult to find a family member from a destroyed house and a few minutes to later bury him or her in a nearby grave, again under the ground,” said Mir Agha, from the city of Herat, who had joined hundreds of volunteers to help the locals.

Nearly 2,000 houses in 20 villages were destroyed, the Taliban have said. The area hit by the quakes has just one government-run hospital.

On Tuesday, U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said Zinda Jan was the worst-affected area, with more than 1,300 people killed and nearly 500 people still reported missing.

He said U.N. satellite imagery also indicated extreme levels of destruction in the district of Injil.

“Our humanitarian colleagues warn that children are particularly vulnerable and have suffered severe psychological distress from the earthquake,” he said.

Earthquakes are common in Afghanistan, where there are a number of fault lines and frequent movement among three nearby tectonic plates. Afghans are still reeling from recent quakes, including the magnitude 6.5 earthquake in March that struck much of western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan, and an earthquake that hit eastern Afghanistan in June 2022, flattening stone and mud-brick homes and killing at least 1,000 people.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the main spokesman for the Taliban government, listed the countries that have so far aided the people affected by the quake in Herat, in a statement posted on X.

He said Iran sent 15 vehicles loaded with aid alongside support and technical teams, while Turkey sent medical teams food, non-food items and medicine. The United Arab Emirates and Turkmenistan also helped with food, medicine, and clothes.

He added a technical team of 49 members from Kazakhstan is assisting those affected by the quake.

In his post, Mujahid said Saudi Arabia provided financial assistance to the people of Herat while China donated $200,000 in cash aid through the Afghan Foreign Affairs ministry.

Neighboring Pakistan is among the countries that have offered assistance but the delivery of its humanitarian aid has been on hold since Monday.

On Wednesday morning, the pledged supplies had yet to leave Pakistan. Authorities were waiting for “clearance” from the Taliban, two government officials in Islamabad said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Ties between the two countries have come under pressure since Pakistan announced a deadline for undocumented migrants, including 1.7 million Afghans living illegally in the country, to leave before Oct. 31 to avoid arrests and forced deportation.

[narrie]

as a lot of attention and media coverage is focusing on the critical situation in palestine atm, i wanna make this post to bring some awareness to the devastating earthquakes that have hit western afghanistan (herat) recently. this past weekend (october 7, 2023) over 2000 ppl died due to the 6.3-magnitude and another earthquake with the same magnitude hit the area again today (october 11, 2023).

the ppl are in dire need of financial aid since a lot of those had been cut in recent years due to the taliban taking over again. the wfp regional director for asia and the pacific said this drastic drop in funding (wfp had 80% less money for afghanistan than last year!!!) is going to lead to a famine and the situation is looking hopeless; especially children and women are suffering these consequences.

here are some organizations that are working on the ground rn and are reliable! please share and consider donating, even if it's just the money u would've spent on takeout or an iced coffee today.

islamic relief and doctors without borders are 2 very well established nonprofits that always help out financially and medically in emergency situations in developing countries

visions for children - german nonprofit founded by two afghan sisters which sets up educational programs and emergency funds!

asiyah international - another german nonprofit that's running national and international aid projects!

srowzar children - australian nonprofit that's on the ground in afghanistan and always posting updates on how ur donations are making a difference!

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2023 Herat earthquakes

Two earthquakes, both with magnitudes of 6.3, struck Afghanistan, on 7 October 2023. The first one struck at 11:11 AFT followed by the second one 31 minutes later.

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Pakistan is in the process of deporting 1.7 million Afghan refugees.

At least 60% of them are children born and raised in Pakistan, as Afghans have been seeking refuge within their southern neighbour's borders since the 1970s. Harrassment by Pakistani law enforcement has increased to unprecedented levels as they have started raiding refugee camps. People are held at newly constructed detention centers without transparency or access to legal representation.

Afghans are now being forced to return to a country ruled by a group that doesn't grant women equal rights and is aiming to establish a gender-apartheid state. Ethnic and religious minorities continue to suffer state-sanctioned violence. Among these refugees, journalists, former government employees and ISAF collaborators will all have to fear for their lives upon return.

Additionally, Afghanistan is facing a humanitarian crisis. Higher grain prices, an on-going draught and continued international sanctions are currently putting 20 million people at risk of a famine. Just recently, several magnitude 6 earthquakes killed over 3,000 and injured over 10,000 in the Western province Herat.

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due to the war going on here, this pieces of news was buried, so I'm using the current track in in my blog to gain some attention!

Yesterday (Sunday 8/10/2023) there has been an earthquake in Afghanistan, located 40 km north of Herat and devastated at least 12 villages. Taliban reports more that 2400 dead and injured (numbers are hazy as they tend to be in the first week), and I've seen reports that they are still digging people out in their bare hands. It was a 6.3 quake and will lead to an even bigger humanitarian crisis (the Turkey-Syria quake was 7.7).

I do not know of any organizations of bodies you can donate to that ensure the money and assistance will get to the people in Afghanistan and not other people, so if you know of any, feel free to add them here and I'll give as much boost as I can.

[visitafghanistan]

Earthquake Emergency Fund

Herat, Afghanistan, recently experienced a harsh earthquake, destroying the homes made of clay in almost all villages. Please donate via this link: https://gofund.me/1725ab74

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Salam dearest friends & community,

our hearts are heavy as we found out that our beloved Herat was hit again by a severe earthquake.

The impact of the last earthquakes has been immense, leaving families homeless, communities shattered, and lives forever changed. Further reports indicate that the majority of the victims are women and children.

We urge you to join us in sending financial assistance and prayers for the over half million souls who call Herat home. May they find strength, resilience, and hope amidst this challenging time.

SUPPORT HERE

Please contribute anyway you can.

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DEATH TOLL IN AFGHAN EARTHQUAKE RISES AS BODIES ARE PULLED FROM THE RUBBLE

According to Afghan Taliban officials, more than 2'400 people have been killed in a devastating 6.3 magnitude Earthquake that hit the drought-stricken Herat region of Afghanistan on Saturday. The Herat region of Afghanistan is home to more than 1.9 million Afghans and the region is renowned for its abundant, top quality crops.

According to a statement from the United Nations Humanitarian Office, all of the homes in the Zindajan district of Herat have been leveled, burying survivors in rubble, leaving many homeless throughout the region as winter approaches, and creating major challenges for aid organizations to provide food, clothing and shelter.

Afghans are already suffering under a crushing sanctions regime imposed by the Biden Administration, complicating rescue and aid efforts for the Taliban government while the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have suspended aid to the impoverished country which had been occupied by US and NATO forces for two decades.

"The operation is still going on, still some people are being pulled out of the rubble,” the spokesman of Heart’s governor, Nissar Ahmad Elyias told reporters.

"Many people have come from far-flung districts to get people out from the rubble,” said Khalid, 32, at Kashkak in Zindajan district 30 kilometers northwest of Herat city, capital of the same-named province.

“Everyone is busy searching for bodies everywhere, we don’t know if there are others as well under the debris.”

“Many of our family members have been martyred, including one of my sons, and my other son is also injured,” Herat resident Mir Ahmed told Reuters at a hospital that was treating many survivors.

“Most of the people are under the rubble.”

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may the long-suffering afghan people see better days 🤲🏽

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With the current escalation in Israel/Gaza, a lot of other tragedies in the greater region have gotten overshadowed (arguably Ankara and Damascus have been deliberately using this as a smokescreen). So, I have wanted to highlight not only what's going on but more importantly possible ways to help or be informed.

Note, these are just a starting point, and I always encourage you to use your judgement in vetting charities (as charity scams are some of the most insidious) and finding one that fits your goals the best.

The big one right now is the earthquake in the north of Afghanistan. As of now (October 10, 2023) there have still been aftershocks around Herat, and the overall death toll is over 2400, with over same amount injured and many more displaced. Donating here is a tough one as nations not only cut off aid but the Taliban itself limits foreign aid workers, as well as women workers. Some organizations (compiled by Time) participating in recovery efforts are International Committee of the Red Cross (which works with the Afghan Red Crescent), UNICEF, Islamic Relief Worldwide, International Rescue Committee, Doctors Without Borders, and CARE International.

On October 7, Assad kicked off more bombing on the besieged city of Idlib. In this case, the biggest issue is displacement, for which I'd recommend refugee organizations such as the IRC.

Also in that weekend, Erdogan bombarded the predominantly-Kurdish north of Syria. The main organization that functions as a bridge between the US and that region is the Emergency Committee for Rojava.

Again, this is not meant to be exhaustive, nor may some orgs jive with what you're looking for. But the point is to show that there are ways to get involved around the world.

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GOFUNDME FOR EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS IN AFGHANISTAN!

In Herat province a total of 12,110 people were affected by the earthquake, Zindajan district was the epicenter of the disaster & is the worst affected area with 1,320 families affected with 1,294 deaths & 1,688 injured reported, including another 485 people reported missing and almost all houses in the area affected & destroyed. Zindajan district is located 40 km west of Herat city. Unfortunately, six schools were also destroyed and another eight were reported partially damaged by the disaster.

SELDO has distributed relief kits to the villages of Naieb Rafi, Sar boland and Kushk which were most affected by the earthquake and we will cover all the villages which are in dire need of assistance. However, the needs are still immense and urgent. The number of victims is changing every day and many people are still living in temporary shelters without adequate access to water, sanitation, health care and protection. Therefore, we plan to continue our support to earthquake-affected families and to conduct a comprehensive assessment and survey of the causes and humanitarian needs in the area. SELDO will also help rebuild schools, homes, and infrastructure that were damaged or destroyed by the earthquake once the assessment is complete. You can learn more about our work and mission on our SELDO website.

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More than 90% of the people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan last weekend were women and children, U.N. officials reported Thursday. Taliban officials said Saturday’s earthquake killed more than 2,000 people of all ages and genders across Herat province. The epicenter was in Zenda Jan district, where 1,294 people died, 1,688 were injured and every home was destroyed, according to U.N. figures. Women and children were more likely to have been at home when the quake struck in the morning, said Siddig Ibrahim, the chief of the UNICEF field office in Herat. “When the first earthquake hit, people thought it was an explosion, and they ran into their homes,” he said.