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The death toll from an earthquake in northern Afghanistan is climbing, and hundreds of families have lost their homes as the harsh winter arrives.

Local emergency agencies say they are monitoring the seismic activity but have not issued any tsunami warnings.

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake has killed at least 20 people, striking northern Afghanistan near the city of Mazar-i-Sharif. The Ministry of Public Health reported the death toll on Monday, raising the estimate as search efforts began. A further 320 people are reported to have been injured.

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Texas’ strongest earthquake in history struck around 5:40 a.m. on Aug. 16, 1931. The magnitude 5.8 earthquake was centered about 7.5 miles southwest of Valentine, a small community in Presidio County, between El Paso and Big Bend.

First quakes are the most dangerous: Once a healed fault ruptures for the first time, it cannot generate another major earthquake on human timescales. Subsequent events on nearby fault segments carry sharply reduced stress and smaller magnitudes.

Nov 3 (Reuters) - A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif early on Monday, killing at least seven people and injuring about 150, just months after a quake and strong aftershocks killed more than 2,200 people at the end of August.

Hemmed in by rugged mountains, Afghanistan is prone to a range of natural disasters, but its earthquakes cause the most fatalities, killing about 560 people on average each year and causing annual damages estimated at $80 million. Studies indicate at least 355 earthquakes with a magnitude higher than 5.0 have hit Afghanistan since 1990.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck the east coast of Russia's Kamchatka region on Monday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.The quake was at a depth of 28 km (17.4 miles), GFZ said.