Afghanistan is on the Eurasian plate, and its seismic activity is caused by the Arabian plate moving northward past western Afghanistan at a rate of 33 mm/year. Additionally, the Indian plate is moving eastward past eastern Afghanistan at a speed of 39 mm/year or even faster. Both of these plates are subducting beneath the Eurasian plate, leading to seismic events in the region.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1264/pdf/OFR-1264.pdf
Tectonic setting of Afghanistan and surrounding regions. White arrows show relative plate motion directions of the Arabian and Indian plates with respect to the Eurasian plate (plate velocities from Ambraseys and Bilham 2003). The plate boundaries are marked with numbers: (I) Makran subduction zone, (II) fold-and-thrust belt east of the Chaman fault, and (III) Himalaya collision zone. White stars show the location of the Takhar earthquake (M6.5) in 1998 and Nahrin earthquake (M6.1) in 2002. Major faults from Walker and Jackson (2004), Ruleman et al. (2007), and Mohadjer et al. (2016)
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