Afghanistan's deadliest earthquake in two decades killed at least 920 people near the southeastern city of Khost on Wednesday, officials have said.
The country has a long history of earthquakes, many in the mountainous Hindu Kush region bordering Pakistan.
Death tolls have been worsened by the remote locations of many quakes and decades of war that have left infrastructure in perilous condition.Here is a list of Afghan quakes that have killed more than 100 people over the last three decades, according to the U.S. government's National Centers for Environmental Information:Earthquake in the rugged Hindu Kush killed 848 people across Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Soviet Union.A magnitude 7.
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