December 25, 2015 Earthquake: Afghanistan, Pakistan

Two people were killed while at least 85 others were injured across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Gilgit-Baltistan when an earthquake shook parts of Pakistan on Friday night. The two killed included a soldier from Mohmand tribal region and a woman from Ghizer. Assistant Political Agent in Ghalanai Haseebur Rehman Khalil told Dawn that the injured sepoy had been taken to the Mamad Gat Hospital. In Gilgit-Baltistan, an expecting mother was killed and her husband and two children, aged two and four years, were injured when their house collapsed in Phander area of Ghizer district. According to Pakistan Metrological Department, earthquake measuring about 6.9 Ritcher scale originated at 12.14am at a depth of 197 kilometres along the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border. An official said the tremors lasted around 50 seconds. Two minor aftershocks were also recorded on Saturday morning. (reference #11330)

At least 12 people were injured in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province after an earthquake jolted the country just before midnight Friday, officials said on Saturday... The U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said two regions of Afghanistan were affected - east and north-east - but the expected impact was "small to medium scale.".. Overall, five provinces were affected, with 12 people injured and 16 houses damaged, OCHA said. (reference #11331)

At least 3 people killed and 83 injured in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; one person killed and 5 people injured by a landslide in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Felt (V) at Abbottabad, Faisalabad and Peshawar; (IV) at Gujranwala, Islamabad, Jhelum, Kahna, Lahore, Mardan, Multan, Rawalpindi and Shekhupura. At least 12 people injured and 79 houses destroyed in northeastern Afghanistan. Felt (IV) at Bagram, Kabul, Mahmud-e Raqi and Mazar-e Sharif. Felt (V) at Kharar and Srinagar; (III) at Chandigarh, Delhi, Gharonda, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Nangloi and Noida, India. Felt (IV) at Dushanbe, Tajikistan and (III) at Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Felt at Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Felt widely in northeastern Afghanistan and northeastern Pakistan and in parts of northwestern India, Tajikistan and southeastern Uzbekistan. Mānsehra, North-West Frontier, Pakistan - CDI: 6; Bat Khela, North-West Frontier, Pakistan - CDI: 6; Karakendzha, Karotegin, Tajikistan - CDI: 6; Topi, North-West Frontier, Pakistan - CDI: 6; Chitral, North-West Frontier, Pakistan - CDI: 6 (reference #13456)