Pakistan 5.1 - 47 km ENE of Pārūn, Afghanistan 2023-01-19 11:30:42 (UTC)35.541°N 71.424°E96.0 km profundity

 M2023-01-19 11:30:42 (UTC)35.541°N 71.424°E96.0 km profundity 5.1 - 47 km ENE of Pārūn, Afghanistan

50 km

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AFG

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Nuristan

Country

Afghanistan

Close by Spots

Pārūn, Nuristan, Afghanistan

47.3 km (29.4 mi) WSWPopulation: 1000

Upper Dir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

55.3 km (34.4 mi) SEPopulation: 29869

Āsmār, Kunar, Afghanistan

56.8 km (35.3 mi) SPopulation: 15708

Thal, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

74.5 km (46.3 mi) EPopulation: 29331

Asadābād, Kunar, Afghanistan

78.4 km (48.7 mi) SSWPopulation: 48400

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Structural Synopsis

Seismotectonics of the Himalaya and Area

Seismicity in the Himalaya overwhelmingly results from the mainland impact of the India and Eurasia plates, which are merging at a general pace of 40-50 mm/yr. Toward the north underthrusting of India underneath Eurasia produces various quakes and thusly makes this region one of the most seismically unsafe areas on The planet. The surface articulation of the plate limit is set apart by the lower regions of the north-south moving Sulaiman Reach in the west, the Indo-Burmese Bend in the east and the east-west moving Himalaya Front in the north of India.

The India-Eurasia plate limit is a diffuse limit, which in the locale close to the north of India, exists in the restrictions of the Indus-Tsangpo (likewise called the Yarlung-Zangbo) Stitch toward the north and the Super Front facing Push toward the south. The Indus-Tsangpo Stitch Zone is found approximately 200 km north of the Himalaya Front and is characterized by an uncovered ophiolite chain along its southern edge. The thin (<200km) Himalaya Front incorporates various east-west moving, equal designs. This district has the most noteworthy paces of seismicity and biggest tremors in the Himalaya locale, caused chiefly by development on push deficiencies. Instances of critical quakes, in this thickly populated locale, brought about by switch slip development incorporate the 1934 M8.1 Bihar, the 1905 M7.5 Kangra and the 2005 M7.6 Kashmir tremors. The last two brought about the most elevated losses of life for Himalaya seismic tremors seen to date, together killing more than 100,000 individuals and leaving millions destitute. The biggest instrumentally recorded Himalaya quake happened on fifteenth August 1950 in Assam, eastern India. This M8.6 right-parallel, strike-slip, tremor was generally felt over a wide area of focal Asia, making broad harm towns in the epicentral locale.

The Tibetan Level is arranged north of the Himalaya, extending roughly 1000km north-south and 2500km east-west, and is geographically and structurally complex with a few stitches which are many kilometer-long and by and large pattern east-west. The Tibetan Level is cut by various huge (>1000km) east-west moving, left-sidelong, strike-slip shortcomings, including the long Kunlun, Haiyuan, and the Altyn Tagh. Right-horizontal, strike-slip issues (tantamount in size to the left-sidelong blames), in this area incorporate the Karakorum, Red Waterway, and Sagaing. Auxiliary north-south moving typical blames likewise cut the Tibetan Level. Push deficiencies are found towards the north and south of the Tibetan Level. Aggregately, these shortcomings oblige crustal shortening related with the continuous impact of the India and Eurasia plates, with push flaws obliging north south pressure, and ordinary and strike-slip obliging east-west expansion.

Along the western edge of the Tibetan Level, nearby south-eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan, the India plate makes an interpretation of at a slant comparative with the Eurasia plate, bringing about a complicated overlap and-push belt known as the Sulaiman Reach. Blaming in this district incorporates strike-slip, switch slip and angled slip movement and frequently brings about shallow, damaging tremors. The dynamic, left-horizontal, strike-slip Chaman shortcoming is the quickest moving shortcoming in the district. In 1505, a section of the Chaman issue close to Kabul, Afghanistan, cracked causing far and wide obliteration. In a similar district the later 30 May 1935, M7.6 Quetta quake, which happened in the Sulaiman Reach in Pakistan, killed somewhere in the range of 30,000 and 60,000 individuals.

On the north-western side of the Tibetan Level, underneath the Pamir-Hindu Kush Piles of northern Afghanistan, seismic tremors happen at profundities as extraordinary as 200 km because of leftover lithospheric subduction. The bended curve of profound quakes found in the Hindu Kush Pamir locale demonstrates the presence of a lithospheric body at profundity, remembered to be leftovers of a subducting chunk. Get segments through the Hindu Kush district recommend a close to vertical northerly-plunging subducting chunk, while get areas through the close by Pamir locale toward the east show a much shallower plunging, southerly subducting piece. A few models recommend the presence of two subduction zones; with the Indian plate being subducted underneath the Hindu Kush district and the Eurasian plate being subducted underneath the Pamir locale. Nonetheless, different models recommend that only one of the two plates is being subducted and that the chunk has become reshaped and toppled in places.

Shallow crustal seismic tremors likewise happen around here close to the Principal Pamir Push and other dynamic Quaternary flaws. The Fundamental Pamir Push, north of the Pamir Mountains, is a functioning shortening structure. The northern piece of the Primary Pamir Push produces many shallow seismic tremors, while its western and eastern lines show a blend of pushed and strike-slip components. On the 18 February 1911, the M7.4 Sarez seismic tremor cracked in the Focal Pamir Mountains, killing various individuals and setting off a landside, which impeded the Murghab Waterway.

Further north, the Tian Shan is a seismically dynamic intra-mainland mountain belt, which broadens 2500 km in an ENE-WNW direction north of the Tarim Bowl. This belt is characterized by various east-west moving push shortcomings, making a compressional bowl and reach scene. It is for the most part believed that local anxieties related with the impact of the India and Eurasia plates are liable for blaming in the district. The area has had three significant tremors (>M7.6) toward the beginning of the twentieth 100 years, including the 1902 Atushi quake, which killed an expected 5,000 individuals. The reach is sliced through in the west by the 700-km-long, northwest-southeast striking, Talas-Ferghana dynamic right-parallel, strike-slip shortcoming situation. However the framework has delivered no serious quakes over the most recent 250 years, paleo-seismic examinations show that it can possibly create M7.0+ tremors and addressing a critical hazard is thought.

The northern piece of the Tibetan Level itself is generally overwhelmed by the movement on three huge left-sidelong, strike-slip shortcoming frameworks; the Altyn Tagh, Kunlun and Haiyuan. The Altyn Tagh shortcoming is the longest of these strike slip flaws and obliging a critical part of plate convergence is thought. Be that as it may, this framework has not experienced huge authentic seismic tremors, however paleoseismic concentrates on show proof of ancient M7.0-8.0 occasions. Push flaws connect with the Altyn Tagh at its eastern and western ends. The Kunlun Shortcoming, south of the Altyn Tagh, is seismically dynamic, creating huge quakes, for example, the eighth November 1997, M7.6 Manyi tremor and the fourteenth November 2001, M7.8 Kokoxili quake. The Haiyuan Issue, in the far north-east, created the 16 December 1920, M7.8 quake that killed roughly 200,000 individuals and the 22 May 1927 M7.6 tremor that killed 40,912.

The Longmen Shan push belt, along the eastern edge of the Tibetan Level, is a significant underlying element and structures a momentary zone between the unpredictably distorted Songpan-Garze Overlap Belt and the somewhat undeformed Sichuan Bowl. On 12 May 2008, the push belt created the opposite slip, M7.9 Wenchuan tremor, killing more than 87,000 individuals and causing billions of US dollars in penalties and avalanches which dammed a few streams and lakes.

Southeast of the Tibetan Level are the right-sidelong, strike-slip Red Stream and the left-parallel, strike-slip Xiangshuihe-Xiaojiang shortcoming frameworks. The Red Stream Shortcoming experienced huge scope, left-horizontal flexible shear during the Tertiary time frame prior to changing to its current day right-parallel slip pace of around 5 mm/yr. This shortcoming has delivered a few seismic tremors >M6.0 including the 4 January 1970, M7.5 quake in Tonghai which killed north of 10,000 individuals. Starting from the beginning of the twentieth hundred years, the Xiangshuihe-Xiaojiang Issue framework has created a few M7.0+ tremors including the M7.5 Luhuo quake which cracked on the 22 April 1973. An examinations recommend that because of the great slip rate on this shortcoming, future huge tremors are exceptionally conceivable along the 65km stretch among Daofu and Qianning and the 135km stretch that goes through Kangding.

Shallow quakes inside the Indo-Burmese Circular segment, transcendently happen on a mix of strike-slip and converse flaws, including the Sagaing, Kabaw and Dauki issues. Somewhere in the range of 1930 and 1956, six M7.0+ seismic tremors happened close to the right-horizontal Sagaing Issue, bringing about extreme harm in Myanmar including the age of avalanches, liquefaction and the deficiency of 610 lives. Profound tremors (200km) have additionally been known to happen around here, these are believed to be because of the subduction of the eastwards plunging, India plate, however whether subduction is as of now dynamic is discussed. Mind