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href="http://www.isc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/FormatBibprint.pl?evid=5267309">5267309</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> </th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.isc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/FormatBibprint.pl?evid=2947182">2947182</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">USGS-<a href="/wiki/Advanced_National_Seismic_System" title="Advanced National Seismic System">ANSS</a></th><td class="infobox-data"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> </th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000azhc">ComCat</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> </th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000b10y">ComCat</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Local date</th><td class="infobox-data"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> </th><td class="infobox-data">March 3, 2002<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2002-03-03</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> </th><td class="infobox-data">March 25, 2002<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2002-03-25</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Local time</th><td class="infobox-data">16:38</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> </th><td class="infobox-data">19:26</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Magnitude</th><td class="infobox-data">7.4 M<sub>w</sub> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> </th><td class="infobox-data">6.1 M<sub>w</sub> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Depth</th><td class="infobox-data">March 3 – 226 km (140 mi) <br />8 km (5 mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Epicenter</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=2002_Hindu_Kush_earthquakes&params=36.5_N_70.48_E_region:AF_type:event"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">36°30′N</span> <span class="longitude">70°29′E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">36.5°N 70.48°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">36.5; 70.48</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fault_(geology)#Dip-slip_faults" title="Fault (geology)">Dip-slip</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><abbr title="Maximum">Max.</abbr> intensity</th><td class="infobox-data">March 3 – <span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 0); padding:4px; color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Modified_Mercalli_intensity_scale#mmi-6" title="Modified Mercalli intensity scale"><span style="color:black;">MMI VI (<i>Strong</i>)</span></a></span><sup id="cite_ref-USGS1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USGS1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <br />March 25 – <span style="background-color:rgba(255, 200, 0); padding:4px; color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Modified_Mercalli_intensity_scale#mmi-7" title="Modified Mercalli intensity scale"><span style="color:black;">MMI VII (<i>Very strong</i>)</span></a></span><sup id="cite_ref-USGS2_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USGS2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Casualties</th><td class="infobox-data"> <ul><li>166 dead, some injured (March 3 event)<sup id="cite_ref-NGDC_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NGDC-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1,200 dead (March 25 event)</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>2002 Hindu Kush earthquakes</b> struck in northern <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> during the month of March. At least 166 people were killed with a very large and intermediate-depth mainshock on March 3. Three weeks later, at least 1,200 were killed during a moderate but shallow event that had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (<i>Very strong</i>). The M7.4 and M6.1 <a href="/wiki/Fault_(geology)#Dip-slip_faults" title="Fault (geology)">reverse</a> events were focused in the <a href="/wiki/Hindu_Kush" title="Hindu Kush">Hindu Kush</a> mountain range area.<sup id="cite_ref-USGS1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USGS1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-USGS2_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USGS2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tectonic_setting">Tectonic setting</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2002_Hindu_Kush_earthquakes&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Tectonic setting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Northern Afghanistan lies within the broad zone of continuing <a href="/wiki/Continental_collision" title="Continental collision">collision</a> between the <a href="/wiki/Indian_plate" title="Indian plate">Indian plate</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Eurasian_plate" title="Eurasian plate">Eurasian plate</a>. The area is seismically active, particularly as a result of faulting at just over 200 km depth within the descending slab. Many large events of M ≥ 7 have been observed in the Hindu Kush, all with similar epicenters, with an approximate periodicity of about 10–15 years. These events have <a href="/wiki/Reverse_fault" class="mw-redirect" title="Reverse fault">reverse fault</a> <a href="/wiki/Focal_mechanism" title="Focal mechanism">focal mechanisms</a>, which for the near-vertical slab indicates active extension. It has been proposed that these earthquakes are a result of "necking" of the downgoing slab, a process that may eventually lead to <a href="/wiki/Slab_detachment" title="Slab detachment">break-off</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Zhan_&_Kanamori_2016_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zhan_&_Kanamori_2016-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smaller shallow focus earthquakes are also observed in the region, particularly associated with north–south trending zones of right lateral strike-slip, such as the <a href="/wiki/Chaman_Fault" title="Chaman Fault">Chaman Fault</a>, with an increasing degree of shortening to the north, together accommodating the highly oblique convergence between the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate.<sup id="cite_ref-Ambraseys_&_Bilham_2003_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ambraseys_&_Bilham_2003-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Earthquakes">Earthquakes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2002_Hindu_Kush_earthquakes&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Earthquakes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The earthquake on March 3 had a magnitude of 7.4 M<sub>w</sub> , with a <a href="/wiki/Hypocenter" title="Hypocenter">hypocentral</a> depth of 225.6 km. The focal mechanism is consistent with reverse faulting within subducting oceanic crust. Comparison with similar earthquakes in 1993 and <a href="/wiki/October_2015_Hindu_Kush_earthquake" title="October 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake">2015</a>, which have very similar depths and epicenters, suggests that the major component of the slip in all three events occurred on the same part of the fault.<sup id="cite_ref-Zhan_&_Kanamori_2016_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zhan_&_Kanamori_2016-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The earthquake on March 25 had a magnitude of 6.1 M<sub>w</sub> , with a hypocentral depth of 8.0 km. It had a reverse fault mechanism that occurred on one of two possible moderately-dipping north–south trending faults. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Damage">Damage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2002_Hindu_Kush_earthquakes&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Damage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="March_3_event">March 3 event</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2002_Hindu_Kush_earthquakes&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: March 3 event"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At 12:08:19 UTC a 7.4 tremor hit an area 65 km (40 mi) S of <a href="/wiki/Fayzabad,_Badakhshan" title="Fayzabad, Badakhshan">Feyzabad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>. At least 150 people were killed, several injured and 400 houses damaged or destroyed by a landslide that dammed and flooded <a href="/w/index.php?title=Surkundara_Valley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Surkundara Valley (page does not exist)">Surkundara Valley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samangan_Province" title="Samangan Province">Samangan Province</a>. At least 13 people were killed at <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rostaq,_Afghanistan_(village)" title="Rostaq, Afghanistan (village)">Rostaq</a> and 3 people killed in <a href="/wiki/Bajaur" class="mw-redirect" title="Bajaur">Bajaur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>. At least 300 houses were destroyed in <a href="/wiki/Badakhshan" title="Badakhshan">Badakhshan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Takhar_Province" title="Takhar Province">Takhar Provinces</a>. A 45 meter wide fissure opened in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Xiker_Reservoir&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Xiker Reservoir (page does not exist)">Xiker Reservoir</a> in <a href="/wiki/Xinjiang" title="Xinjiang">Xinjiang</a>, <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>. This was a deep <a href="/wiki/Hypocenter" title="Hypocenter">focus</a> event and was felt in much of Afghanistan and <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>. Felt also in <a href="/wiki/Tajikistan" title="Tajikistan">Tajikistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kyrgyzstan" title="Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a> and <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-USGS1_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USGS1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="March_25_event">March 25 event</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2002_Hindu_Kush_earthquakes&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: March 25 event"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At 14:56:33 UTC, a magnitude 6.1 tremor hit an area 160 km (99 mi) southwest of Feyzabad, Afghanistan. The United Nations estimated approximately 1,200 people dead and 20,000 families affected. This was a shallow focus event and was felt strongly in much of northern Afghanistan. Also felt in the Islamabad-Peshawar area, Pakistan and at Dushanbe, Tajikistan.<sup id="cite_ref-USGS2_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USGS2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Nahrin, many homes collapsed; the maximum Modified Mercalli intensity was assigned VII (<i>Very strong</i>). The high death toll and heavy damage was attributed to poor construction—most homes were constructed of mud brick.<sup id="cite_ref-Yeats03_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yeats03-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2002_Hindu_Kush_earthquakes&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output 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title="December 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake">December 2015 Hindu Kush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Afghanistan_earthquake" title="2016 Afghanistan earthquake">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2022_Afghanistan_earthquake" class="mw-redirect" title="January 2022 Afghanistan earthquake">January 2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2022_Afghanistan_earthquake" title="June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake">June 2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2022_Afghanistan_earthquake" title="September 2022 Afghanistan earthquake">September 2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Badakhshan_earthquake" title="2023 Badakhshan earthquake">2023 Badakhshan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Herat_earthquakes" title="2023 Herat earthquakes">2023 Herat</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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