{"id":73760,"date":"2025-09-01T14:16:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/01\/afghanistan-earthquake-near-jalalabad-magnitude-6-quake-pakistan-border"},"modified":"2025-09-01T17:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:57:11","slug":"afghanistan-earthquake-at-least-250-dead-after-6-0-magnitude-quake-near-jalalabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73760","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 6 earthquake in eastern Afghanistan leaves at least 800 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue efforts hampered by steep terrain after shallow quake that was felt  more than 100 miles away in Kabul<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/sep\/01\/afghanistan-earthquake-live-hundreds-after-shallow-quake-strikes-countrys-east-state-media-reports\">Afghanistan earthquake \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A powerful earthquake that hit eastern Afghanistan has left more than 800 people dead and injured about 2,500, according to Taliban officials.<\/p>\n<p>The magnitude 6 earthquake hit four provinces in eastern Afghanistan around midnight on Sunday, with the rugged, mountainous region of Kunar the worst affected, triggering landslides and flooding.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/01\/afghanistan-earthquake-near-jalalabad-magnitude-6-quake-pakistan-border\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue efforts hampered by steep terrain after shallow quake that was felt  more than 100 miles away in KabulAfghanistan earthquake \u2013 latest updatesA powerful earthquake that hit eastern Afghanistan has left more than 800 people dead and injured about &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,263,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-earthquakes","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73787,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73760\/revisions\/73787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}