Highlights

• Humanitarian partners are ramping up response efforts following yesterday’s devastating 6.3 magnitude earthquake in Herat Province, western Afghanistan.

• Search and rescue efforts are continuing, with rapid multi-sectoral assessment teams deployed to affected areas.

• To date, 1,023 people are reported to have been killed and 1,663 people injured across eleven villages of Zindajan district, Herat Province, where 100 per cent of homes are estimated to have been completely destroyed. A further 516 people (203 men and 213 women) are reported to be missing from the district.

• In total, 11,585 people (1,655 families) are assessed to have been affected to date across Zindajan district (1,320 families), and Injil (150 families), Gulran (95 families), Kohsan (60 families) and Kushk (Robat-e-Sagani) districts (30 families). 1 The number of casualties and affected households affected is expected to rise as remote areas are reached and assessments are completed.
  In Naieb Rafi village, the de-facto authorities (DfA), transported women and children whose homes had been completely destroyed to Herat City overnight and today. So far, assessments have identified 33 unaccompanied minors, 15 unaccompanied elderly, and 48 female-headed households in Zindajan district.