Alert: The night the mountains shook: A doctor on the front lines of Afghanistan’s earthquake

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Alert 6 September 2025

The night the mountains shook: A doctor on the front lines of Afghanistan's earthquake The first jolt threw Dr. Abdul Mateen Sahak out of bed. The second sent him to his phone. It was right before midnight, last Sunday, and the steep, mountainous valleys of eastern Afghanistan had just been hit by a powerful 6.0-magnitude earthquake, closely followed by the first of many aftershocks. Read more

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