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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