{"id":32156,"date":"2025-09-01T06:05:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T06:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=32156"},"modified":"2025-09-01T06:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T06:05:56","slug":"at-least-250-killed-in-6-0-magnitude-earthquake-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/at-least-250-killed-in-6-0-magnitude-earthquake-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least 250 Killed In 6.0-Magnitude Earthquake In Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sept 1: At least 250 people have been killed and over 500 have been injured in Afghanistan after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit the country, Taliban officials said Monday.<br \/>\nThe earthquake struck 17 miles from the city of Jalalabad near the border with Pakistan around midnight local time (3:30 p.m. ET Sunday), according to the U.S. Geological Survey.<br \/>\nBecause the earthquake hit a remote mountainous area, \u201cit will take time to get the exact information about human losses and damage to the infrastructure,\u201d said Sharafat Zaman, a spokesperson for the Afghan Public Health Ministry.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have launched a massive rescue operation and mobilized hundreds of people to help people in the affected areas,\u201d Zaman said.<br \/>\nSince the initial quake, at least five aftershocks ranging from 4.5-magnitude to 5.2-magnitude have hit the area throughout Monday, according to the USGS.<br \/>\nAftershocks can last for days and can sometimes be worse than the first quake.<br \/>\nAfghanistan is especially vulnerable to earthquakes as it sits on top of several fault lines where the Indian and Eurasian plates meet. The mountainous terrain of eastern Afghanistan is also prone to landslides, making it harder for emergency services to carry out rescues.<br \/>\nThis quake was especially devastating as it hit at a shallow depth of 5 miles, making it far more destructive even at moderate magnitude.<br \/>\nIn 2022, around 1,000 people were killed and thousands more were injured when a 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Afghanistan.<br \/>\nThat, too, was a shallow quake.<br \/>\nThe next year, three 6.3-magnitude quakes hit the western Afghanistan province of Herat in one week, killing around 1,500 people, according to the U.N.<br \/>\nMonday\u2019s quake comes at a challenging time for Afghanistan, one of the world\u2019s poorest countries, which is suffering from four consecutive years of drought and the influx of over 2.3 million Afghans who have returned from Iran and Pakistan this year.<br \/>\n\u201cBelow-average first and second season crop production and reduced livestock income limit their ability to stock food for the winter,\u201d the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, which was established by the United States Agency for International Development, said in a report last week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32157\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32157\" src=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Unknown-300x150.jpeg\" alt=\"At Least 250 Killed In 6.0-Magnitude Earthquake In Afghanistan\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Unknown-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Unknown-233x117.jpeg 233w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Unknown-230x115.jpeg 230w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Unknown-100x50.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Unknown.jpeg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Least 250 Killed In 6.0-Magnitude Earthquake In Afghanistan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sept 1: At least 250 people have been killed and over 500 have been injured in Afghanistan after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit the country, Taliban officials said Monday. 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