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Afghanistan:Earthquake:2005/10/23
Duration2005/10/23 An earthquake destroyed homes and killed five people near Afghanistan's eastern border with Pakistan, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.
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  • Reuters AlertNet 2005/10/23
    An earthquake hit southeastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing five people and affecting six villages in the province of Paktika, a defence ministry official said.
  • CNN NEWS 2005/10/23
    Pakistan's Seismological Center in the city of Peshawar said two quakes were registered along the border area early Sunday. One was a magnitude-5.2 and hit just after midnight local time. The other, a magnitude-4.9 quake, struck at dawn.
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