More than 7,000 people in Afghanistan have died from earthquakes in the past decade, averaging 560 deaths a year.[1] A major earthquake in 2015 in northeast Afghanistan killed over 200 people in the country and neighboring Pakistan.[2] In 2008, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake in western Pakistan killed 166 people and destroyed several villages from triggered landslides.[3] Earlier earthquakes in 2002 and in 1998 killed over a thousand and about 4,700 people respectively.[9]