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Afghanistan : Earthquake : 2002/03/03
GLIDE: EQ-2002-000122-AFG

Duration	2002/03/03
Country or District	Afghanistan
Name	Earthquake
Outline	An earthquake shook Afghanistan. The earthquake left 20 people wounded and 5 people dead.

Headline(Source, Date)
Personal Injury	Material Damage	Others
OCHA Situation Report No. 3　2002/03/07
Kabul Dead: 3 persons Samanghan province Dead: 70～150 people	Kabul Destroyed houses: 13 Severely damaged houses: 25

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Report/Articles

OCHA Situation Report No.4 2002/03/11
the rising water continues to destroy the road
OCHA Situation Report No. 3　2002/03/07
OCHA Situation Report No. 3
Afghanistan - Earthquake
yahoo!singapore news 2002/03/07
Almost no hope for Afghan village quake victims
yahoo!asia news2002/03/06
Hope fades for finding survivors in Afghan quake
OCHA Situation Report 2002/03/05
In Kabul 32 families lost their houses and over 100 houses were damaged.
yahoo!news 2002/03/05
Rescuers Step Up Efforts in Afghan Quake Village
yahoo!news 2002/03/05
Flooding Follows Afghan Earthquake
The News International Pakistan 2002/03/05
150 perish in Afghan earthquake.
The Nation 2002/03/05
150 dead in Afghan quake.
CNN News 2002/03/05
At least 150 people are feared dead in northern Afghanistan.
Reuter News 2002/03/04
At least 100 people died and 15 have been injured in a northern Afghan village.The earthquake struck Afghanistan, shaking an area stretching from Tajikistan to India.
AFP Report 2002/03/04
150 people were killed at Dahani Zoa in the Khuram Sarbagh region of Samangan province, about 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of Kabul.In Islamabad, the UN World Food Program (WFP) put the death toll estimate at 100.
OCHA Situation Report 2002/03/04
According to the Governor of Samanghan province (Northern Afghanistan), there was a landslide on 3 March.The Governor further reported that 100 people were missing, 50 were confirmed dead.
CNN news 2002/03/05
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7 of above is considered a major quake capable of causing widespread structural damage.
BBC news 2002/03/04
About 50 people are thought to have been killed and another 100 are missing in Afghanistan.
infoseek news 2002/03/04
About 50 dead and 100 missing after earthquake in Northern Afghanistan.
yahoo!news UK&Ireland 2002/03/04
Five Dead In Afghan Quake
yomiuri-online 2002/03/04
five killed as powerful earthquake in Afghanistan.
Reuter AlertNet 2002/03/03
A powerful earthquake struck northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least five people and injuring 31 others in the capital Kabul and the eastern city of Jalalabad.
CNN news 2002/03/03
Quake shakes Afghanistan capital.
Reuter News (Japanese) 2002/03/03
An Earthquake shook Afghanistan.

Geographycal Data Information

Reuter AlertNet 2002/03/04
Map of earthquake in Afghanistan
National Earthquake Information Center 2002/03/03
Magnitude 7.3, Depth 194.9 kilometers