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Strong quake strikes northern Pakistan Powerful earthquake strikes northern Afghanistan
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Powerful earthquake strikes northern Pakistan, tremors felt as widely as northern India and Afghanistan A powerful earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan, with tremors felt as widely as Pakistan and northern India.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. The quake had a magnitude of 7.7, the US Geological survey reported, and was centred in the mountainous Hindu Kush region, 45km (28 miles) south-west of Jarm.
If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App then details on how to do so are available on this help page. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. In Pakistan, local news channels showed people evacuating office buildings.
There have been no reports so far of casualties.
A BBC correspondent in the Pakistani city of Lahore said phone lines were down following the quake.
People in the Indian capital Delhi ran into the streets after the tremor struck, witnesses said.