Rock-n-Rolling in Afghanistan – Literally
As I discovered early Friday morning, earthquakes occur fairly regularly along fault lines underneath the Hindu Kush Region. Just before going to bed, I noticed the wardrobe in my room started to shake back and forth. Not sure what was going on, I started to look behind it when I noticed the table was also rocking and my whole room seemed to be slightly swaying. And almost as soon as it began, everything stopped moving. Many of the occupants of my building (really just 8X20 containers that have been assembled to form a hotel of sorts) rallied in the hallway to “see” what happened – and to confirm whether or not some form of attack had occurred. One of the “older” occupants quickly explained, however, that it was just “another earthquake.”
The quake occurred in a remote region of the Badakhshan Province about 150 miles northeast of Kabul. The Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that the remote region is prone to earthquakes. It may also take some time before damage is reported and made known due to poor communications infrastructure in the region. Learn More about the 6.2 magnitude quake.
Earthquakes and insurgency – only in Afghanistan!
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