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At Least 15 Hurt as Earthquake Strikes Eastern Afghanistan

Eastern Afghanistan was jolted by a magnitude 4.9 earthquake on Saturday that killed one person and injured at least 15 people, Local media reported. The quake, which shook near the eastern city of Jalalabad, also caused damage to some residential homes, officials told news agencies. Local officials said that the injuries occurred in Dara-e-Noor district and the victims, who sustained no life-threatening conditions, were transferred to a regiona…
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Local Taliban officials in Nangarhar say that 15 people were injured in an earthquake this morning (Tuesday, September 23) in the province. At 5:48 a.m., a 4.9 magnitude earthquake shook Jalalabad. The US Geological Survey said that the epicenter of the earthquake was 10 kilometers deep, four kilometers northeast of Jalalabad. Naqibullah Rahimi, spokesman for the Taliban’s public health department in Nangarhar, said that 15 injured people were t…

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روزنامه اطلاعات روز broke the news on Tuesday, August 25, 2026.
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