There was little sign of heavy equipment- only one bulldozer was spotted being transported. Ambulances circulated, but little other help to the living was evident.
More than 7,000 people have been killed in earthquakes in the country, according to the UN`s Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports. There are an average of 560 deaths a year from earthquakes.
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afghanistan earthquake update: Survivors dug by hand Thursday through villages in eastern Afghanistan reduced to rubble by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people, as the Taliban and the international community that fled their takeover struggled to aid the disaster’s victims.