he 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake was a magnitude 7.5 earthquake[1][2][3] that struck South Asia on 26 October 2015, at 13:39 AFT, 14:09 PKT, 14:39 IST (09:09 UTC)[1][2][5] with the epicenter 45 km north of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan.[6][7] An aftershock of magnitude 4.8 struck 40 minutes after the main earthquake;[8][9] thirteen more aftershocks of magnitude 4.1 or greater had struck by the morning of 29 October.[4] The main earthquake occurred at a depth of 210 km.[3]

It was reported on 26 October that more than 391 people were killed, mostly in Pakistan.[10] Tremors were felt in Pakistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.[11][12][13] According to the United States Geological Survey, Pakistan falls in the most active quake zone.[14] The earthquake was also felt in the Indian cities of New Delhi, Amritsar[15], Chandigarh, Lucknow etc. and in the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, as far as in the western state of Gujarat[16] and in the prefectures of Kashgar, Aksu, Hotan, and Kizilsu in Xinjiang, China while damage was also reported in Afghan capital Kabul.[10][17] The tremor was even 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. In 2005, tens of thousands were killed in an earthquake centered in the Kashmir region.