Afghanistan
has a complex geology history, and has only very few young volcanoes. Active volcanoes are in Eastern Afghanistan.
where there is collision zone with the Indian plate. One of the volcanos in
Afghanistan is Dasht-e- Nawar Volcano which is in Ghazni Province. This volcano
is located 133 km Southwest of Kabul (Afghanistan Capital). The volcanic area
west of Ghazni cover 4000 sq km. This volcano contains a group of 15 lava domes in west-central Afghanistan. There is
no evidence of recent eruptions at the volcano. A magnitude 6 earthquake hit
140 km East of the volcano on 6th October 2008. This volcano has erupted in the
past 10,000 years.
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