Magnitude 6.3 earthquake hits northwest of Afghanistan’s Herat city ...Middle East

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KABUL: A shallow 6.3 magnitude earthquake rocked western Afghanistan on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, the latest to hit a region where entire villages have been flattened and over 1,000 killed by a series of tremors this month.The quake hit at 0336 GMT, 33 kilometres (20 miles) from Herat city, the capital of the western province of the same name, the USGS said.An 5.5 magnitude aftershock hit the area 20 minutes later, the USGS said.On October 7, another magnitude 6.3 quake and eight powerful aftershocks jolted the same part of Herat, toppling swathes of rural homes and killing over 1,000 people and injuring hundreds more.Days later, with thousands of terrified residents left withou

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