The Taliban interior ministry is now reporting that the death toll from the earthquake in eastern Afghanistan is 610.
More than 1,300 people have been injured, the ministry says.
The quake struck at a shallow depth of 8km (5 miles) - which can be more destructive - and shook buildings from Kabul to Pakistan's capital Islamabad - here's what we know so far.
The remote area where it struck makes providing accurate
estimates hard, as officials warn of high casualty figures.
Dozens of houses are "under rubble", sources from
the Taliban government say, while officials report entire villages being
destroyed.
Locals tell us that landslides have cut off areas near the
epicentre, meaning it will take a long time to fully assess the damage, reports
Yogita Limaye from Kabul.
Its epicentre was 17 miles (27km) away from Jalalabad,
the country's fifth-largest city in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar
province.
The earthquake has also affected the Kunar and Laghman provinces,
and was felt 140km (87 miles) away in the country's capital Kabul.
Afghanistan is no stranger to earthquakes as it sits on a
number of fault lines.
In 2023, a series of quakes in the Herat province killed
more than 1,000 people.
In 2022, Paktika province was struck by a quake which also killed more than 1,000.
