Topic: Hindu Kush
Arriving in Kabul's homely - if beaten-up - airport after Dubai is always something of a contrast. Never more so in my experience than this...
A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan's mountainous Hindu Kush region early Thursday, US seismologists said.The quake hit at 04:22am (2352 GMT Wednesday) just over 200 kilometres (130 miles) north of the capital Kabul, the United States Geological Survey said ...
Forests cover many southern slopes of the eastern and central Hindu Kush, where there is abundant snowfall in the winter and intermittent precipitation from the summer monsoon. Large stands of deodar cedar and blue pine cloak the eastern and central spurs of ...
Seismic risk for the three seismic zones of Hindukush --Pamir--Himalaya and their vicinity has been estimated using both Gumbel's extreme value theory and the theory given by Knopoff and Kagan. Although there are minor deviations in the results of the estimated ...
Magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes Hindu Kush of northern Afghanistan, no major damage reportedA magnitude 6.3 earthquake has rattled the Hindu Kush region in northern Afghanistan, but no major damage or injuries were reported.The temblor late Friday night was felt ...
War for water is an annual issue in the Himalayan-Hindukush mountain range area and some other Asian countries. During summer the need of water for agriculture, hydroelectricity, domestic use and industrial use rises at the high level as the ground water level ...
Strong earthquake hits remote Afghan mountains; no casualties or damage reportedA strong earthquake hit Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains Thursday, shaking large areas of the country and neighboring Pakistan, officials said.There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the ...
Afghan official says aircraft crashes into northern mountainsSecurity forces searched a remote area of northern Afghanistan on Thursday after villagers reported an unidentified aircraft crashed into the towering Hindu Kush mountains.Details were sketchy due to the remoteness of the crash site ...
The article presents abstracts of scientific studies on the heart disease risk of air-pollutant chemicals and oxidized lipids, the genetic pattern of leucine-rich repeat transmembrane neuronal 1 gene which is linked to left-handedness and the glaciers of the Himalayan and Hindu Kush ...
Gedrosia, historic region west of the Indus River, in what is now the Baluchistan region of Pakistan. They captured the area, but after Alexander's death his general Seleucus Nicator was forced to make peace with Chandragupta Maurya by trading Gedrosia and ...
