A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday night (August 31), killing more than 800 people and injuring at least 2,500
The quake’s epicenter was 27 km northeast of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, with a depth of just eight kilometers.
Afghanistan is particularly vulnerable to earthquakes due to its location on fault lines where Indian and Eurasian plates collide.
The shallow depth of this earthquake made it especially deadly, as shallow quakes carry more energy when they reach the surface compared to deeper ones.
Rescue teams are battling to reach remote mountainous areas cut off from mobile networks along the Pakistani border,
where mudbrick homes collapsed Dozens of villages have been completely destroyed in what officials describe as one of Afghanistan’s worst natural disastersghanistanEarthquake
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