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A powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan near Jalalabad, killing over 600 people and injuring more than 1,300. Entire villages in Kunar and Nangarhar provinces have been wiped out. Shallow in depth and deadly in timing, the quake hit late at night while most families were asleep. Emergency teams face landslides, destroyed roads, and remote locations as they rush to rescue survivors. The region lies on a dangerous fault line, making this just one of many deadly quakes in recent years.
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00:00A devastating earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan late at night, and in just minutes, entire
00:05villages were gone.
00:07Over 600 people are confirmed dead, more than 1,300 injured, and the numbers are still rising.
00:13The 6.0-magnitude quake hit just before midnight near Jalalabad, with a deadly depth of only
00:198 kilometers.
00:21That's dangerously shallow.
00:23And that's why the destruction is so massive.
00:25All villages in the mountainous Kunar and Nangarhar provinces have been reduced to rubble.
00:30Houses made of mud and rock simply collapsed on families sleeping inside, and it didn't
00:34stop there.
00:35A second tremor, measuring 4.5, hit the same region shortly after.
00:40Aftershocks continued into the morning.
00:43Emergency crews are racing against time.
00:45But steep terrain, landslides, and remote villages make rescue efforts almost impossible.
00:51This region sits on one of the world's most dangerous fault lines.
00:54Where the Indian and Eurasian plates constantly grind against each other.
00:58Experts say it's not just the shaking that kills.
01:01It's also the landslides that follow.
01:03And for the people of Afghanistan, this is yet another heartbreaking tragedy.
01:07As the dust settles, the true scale of this disaster is only just beginning to unfold.

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