Our WAS seismometer in Westport, CT picked up a magnitude 6.0 earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border on Sunday.
Location: 27 km NE of Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province
Time: 11:47 p.m. local time
Depth: 8 km
USGS models estimate the shaking could cause significant casualties.
Even from thousands of miles away, our instruments can "hear" the Earth’s rumble. https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/asia/afghanistan-earthquake-killed-injured-latam-intl