A shallow 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck just before midnight near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, flattening entire villages and killing at least 800 people while more than 2,500 remain injured. Survivors dug with bare hands to reach relatives trapped beneath collapsed mud-brick homes, as helicopters ferried the wounded to hospitals and blocked roads hampered relief.
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Date: Monday, 1 September 2025
Time: 14:30 GMT
Location: 📍 Kunar Province, Afghanistan
A shallow 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck just before
midnight near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, flattening entire villages and
killing at least 800 people while more than 2,500 remain injured. Survivors dug
with bare hands to reach relatives trapped beneath collapsed mud-brick homes,
as helicopters ferried the wounded to hospitals and blocked roads hampered
relief.
The Afghan Ministry of Interior
confirmed 812 deaths, warning that casualties would rise as remote mountainous
areas remain cut off by landslides. Provinces including Kunar, Nangarhar, Laghman,
and Nuristan suffered heavy tremors, with dozens of settlements reduced to
rubble. Officials said at least 420 people were airlifted during 40 rescue
flights, while 30 doctors and nearly a ton of medical supplies were dispatched
to the quake zone.
“I was
half-buried… my wife and two sons are dead,” one survivor told reporters, capturing the scale of
human tragedy. Analysts say the shallow depth of the quake and Afghanistan’s
vulnerable mud-brick housing amplified the devastation.
The United Nations and NGOs rushed to
mobilise emergency aid, with the World Health Organization pledging medical
support and neighbouring India and Iran offering relief assistance. But poor
communications, destroyed infrastructure, and the country’s fragile
humanitarian landscape are slowing an effective response.
Fact-Check & Background Contex:
Shallow-focus earthquakes under 10 km depth are among the
deadliest, magnifying surface damage, particularly in mountainous
terrain.
Afghanistan’s reliance on mud-brick housing leaves millions
vulnerable to tremors, as seen in past disasters such as the June 2022 quake in
Paktika and Khost that killed over 1,100.
International relief is mobilising, but the UN warns Afghanistan’s existing humanitarian crisis hampers large-scale aid delivery.
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