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The 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake was a magnitude 7.5 earthquake〔〔〔 that struck South Asia on 26 October 2015, at 13:39 AFT, 14:09 PKT, 14:39 IST (09:09 UTC)〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=fc5bb4c1d12f1682&hl=en&gl=PK&source=web )〕 with the epicenter 45 km north of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://geographic.org/earthquakes/real_time_details.php?id=us10003re5&lat=36.4406&lon=70.7167 )〕 at a depth of 212.5 km. An aftershock of magnitude 4.8 struck 40 minutes after the main earthquake;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Massive earthquake kills 105 across South Asia )〕 thirteen more aftershocks of magnitude 4.1 or greater had struck by the morning of 29 October.〔 By 5 November, it was estimated that at least 398 people were killed, mostly in Pakistan.〔〔〔〔 Tremors were felt in Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/7-5-magnitude-earthquake-hits-Hindu-Kush-in-Afghanistan/articleshow/49537374.cms? )〕 According to the United States Geological Survey, Pakistan is in the most active quake zone in the Himalaya region. The earthquake was also felt in the Indian cities of New Delhi, Amritsar, Chandigarh, and Lucknow and in the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, as far as in the western state of Gujarat and in the prefectures of Kashgar, Aksu, Hotan, and Kizilsu in Xinjiang, China while damage was also reported in Afghan capital Kabul.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=阿富汗发生７．８级强震 新疆南部多地震感强烈 )〕 The tremor was also felt in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu, where people initially thought that it was one of the sporadically recurring aftershocks of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake. ==Background== The Himalayan mountain regions of the Indian Subcontinent, pushed up by the collision of tectonic plates, are prone to devastating quakes. An earthquake in April 2015, Nepal's worst in 80 years, killed over 8,600 people. The last major earthquake in the same region of similar magnitude (7.6 Mw) was almost exactly ten years prior in October 2005, which resulted in 87,351 deaths, 75,266 injured, 2.8 million people being displaced, and 250,000 farm animals dying. The notable difference between this earthquake and the 2005 earthquake is the depth of the seismic activity. The 2005 earthquake was 15 km deep while this earthquake was 212.5 km deep, reducing its effects at the surface. In 2011, a magnitude 5.5 (Mw) earthquake occurred inland at 16:29 local time on 7 November in Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. The earthquake was epicentered in the southern end of Badakhshan Province, 175 miles (280 kilometers) northeast of the Afghan capital of Kabul, where the quake was felt for about 15 seconds. The earthquake was felt strongly in Northern Pakistan as well as in the Kashmir Valley in India. Mild tremors were also felt in Indian states of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2015 Hindu Kush earthquake」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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