The quake at was centered 27km east-northeast of the city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, the US Geological Survey said.
Other reports put the death toll at nine.
Hundreds of injured were taken to hospital, local authorities said, with figures likely to rise as reports arrived from remote areas with few roads.
Afghanistan is prone to deadly earthquakes, particularly in the Hindu Kush mountain range, where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates meet.
It has a population of about 300,000 according to the municipality, but its metropolitan area is thought to be far larger.
Many are of poor construction.
A series of earthquakes in Afghanistan’s west killed more than 1,000 people last year, underscoring the vulnerability of one of the world’s poorest countries to natural disasters.
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