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[ghazi52]

Over 800 dead as 6.0-magnitude earthquake hits Afghanistan​

Reuters | AFP | APP
September 1, 2025



People carry an earthquake victim on a stretcher to an ambulance at an airport in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Sept 1, 2025. — Reuters/Stringer
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A massive rescue operation was under way in Afghanistan on Monday, after a strong earthquake and multiple aftershocks flattened homes in a remote, mountainous region, killing more than 800 people, the Taliban authorities said.

The quake, which struck at a relatively shallow depth of eight kilometres, was 27 kilometres from the city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).

Nangarhar and Kunar provinces border Pakistan, with the Torkham crossing, the site of many waves of Afghan returnees deported or forced to leave, often with no work and nowhere to go.

The earthquake struck just before midnight, shaking buildings from capital Kabul to Islamabad in Pakistan. After the initial quake, a series of at least five aftershocks followed throughout the night, with the strongest being one of magnitude 5.2 just after 4am (2330 GMT on Sunday).


More than 1.2 million people likely felt strong or very strong shaking, according to the USGS.

Near the epicentre in the east of Afghanistan, around 800 people were killed and 2,500 injured in remote Kunar province alone, chief Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said.

Another 12 people were killed and 255 injured in neighbouring Nangarhar province, he added.

“Numerous houses were destroyed,” interior ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani told AFP.

The majority of Afghans live in low-rise, mud-brick homes that are vulnerable to collapse.

Some of the most severely impacted villages in remote Kunar provinces “remain inaccessible due to road blockages”, the UN migration agency warned in a statement to AFP.

Afghanistan’s government-run Bakhtar News Agency reported citing officials from the Disaster Management Department in Kunar that “the most severely impacted districts include Noor Gul, Chawkay, Watapur, Mano Gai, and Chapa Dara”.

 

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[Distant_Observer]

 

[ghazi52]

The Taliban authorities and the United Nations mobilised rescue efforts to hard-hit areas. The defence ministry said 40 flight sorties had so far been carried out.

A member of the agricultural department in Kunar’s Nurgal district said people had rushed to clear blocked roads to isolated villages, but that badly affected areas were remote and had limited telecoms networks.

“There is a lot of fear and tension … Children and women were screaming. We had never experienced anything like this in our lives,” Ijaz Ulhaq Yaad told AFP.

He said that many living in quake-hit villages were among the more than four million Afghans who have returned to the country from Iran and Pakistan in recent years.

“They wanted to build their homes here.”

Images from Reuters Television showed helicopters ferrying out the affected, while residents helped soldiers and medics carry the wounded to ambulances.

Rescuers were scrambling to find survivors in the area bordering Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where homes of mud and stone were levelled by the midnight quake that hit at a depth of 10 kilometres.

The disaster will further stretch the resources of the South Asian nation already grappling with humanitarian crises, from a sharp drop in aid to a huge pushback of its citizens from neighbouring countries.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres expressed grief over the incident and extended his condolences.

 

[Master Chief]

Very sad news. Hopefully the relevant aid corridors are opened, although Pakistan is dealing with its own ongoing natural disaster at present.

 

[ghazi52]

Deadly quakes​

Afghanistan is frequently hit by earthquakes, especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range, near the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.

In October 2023, western Herat province was devastated by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake, which killed more than 1,500 people and damaged or destroyed more than 63,000 homes.

In June 2022, a 5.9-magnitude quake struck the impoverished eastern border province of Paktika, killing more than 1,000 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless.

Ravaged by four decades of war, Afghanistan is already contending with a series of humanitarian crises.

Since the return of the Taliban, foreign aid to Afghanistan has been slashed, undermining the already impoverished nation’s ability to respond to disasters.

 

[Watandar]

Very sad news. Pakistan should try and help with aid efforts and build bridges with Afghan people. Its going to be v tough with the floods but any help will be welcomed and long remembered.

 

[Asfandyar Bhittani]

Since Afghans have banned female education, any idea who is treating female patients? Not to mention I haven't seen any woman during evacuations footages.

It would be far better for afghans to create female doctors than rushing to torkham every 5 minutes

 

[Asfandyar Bhittani]

Very sad news. Pakistan should try and help with aid efforts and build bridges with Afghan people. Its going to be v tough with the floods but any help will be welcomed and long remembered.

You can surrender all of Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan to them and they won't change one bit. Ethno nationalism isn't known to follow quid pro quo or logic.

Pakistan sent aid in 2021 to build bridges. This is what afghans did with that aid at Torkham.

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The idea that we can make afghans like us or that the ball is in our court, does not have any place in the actual world.

Though I do agree that we should send aid. So people still stuck in Mutala Pakistan's baradar Islami mulk can get a fresh reminder of how afghans will never like them.

 

[Mighty_Dragon_Strike]

You can surrender all of Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan to them and they won't change one bit. Ethno nationalism isn't known to follow quid pro quo or logic.

Pakistan sent aid in 2021 to build bridges. This is what afghans did with that aid at Torkham.

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The idea that we can make afghans like us or that the ball is in our court, does not have any place in the actual world.

Though I do agree that we should send aid. So people still stuck in Mutala Pakistan's baradar Islami mulk can get a fresh reminder of how afghans will never like them.

this is not hatred, as per their version, Pak. owes them!

blackmailer and smugglers cannot be bought with favors.

 

[Master Chief]

You can surrender all of Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan to them and they won't change one bit. Ethno nationalism isn't known to follow quid pro quo or logic.

Pakistan sent aid in 2021 to build bridges. This is what afghans did with that aid at Torkham.

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The idea that we can make afghans like us or that the ball is in our court, does not have any place in the actual world.

Though I do agree that we should send aid. So people still stuck in Mutala Pakistan's baradar Islami mulk can get a fresh reminder of how afghans will never like them.

You're not wrong about their hatred of us, and we do remain fully cognisant of the same, but women and children don't deserve to starve because of that. It boils down to that.

 

[hussain0216]

Out of interest is that a TTP area that got hit????

On another note send what we can to the Afghans,
I know, I know everything about the Afghans,

But in times like these children, women, civilians will suffer and for all the anger we are Muslims and have a responsibility

 

[Asfandyar Bhittani]

Out of interest is that a TTP area that got hit????

Yes. Right next to bajaur.

 

[hydrabadi_arab]

Out of interest is that a TTP area that got hit????

On another note send what we can to the Afghans,
I know, I know everything about the Afghans,

But in times like these children, women, civilians will suffer and for all the anger we are Muslims and have a responsibility

Yes, dozens of TTP got killed. Some have started blaming Pakistan for this.

 

[Distant_Observer]

Out of interest is that a TTP area that got hit????

On another note send what we can to the Afghans,
I know, I know everything about the Afghans,

But in times like these children, women, civilians will suffer and for all the anger we are Muslims and have a responsibility

Yes it was a bullseye.