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| Powerful earthquake strikes northern Afghanistan | Powerful earthquake strikes northern Afghanistan |
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| A powerful earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan, with tremors felt as widely as Pakistan and northern India. | A powerful earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan, with tremors felt as widely as Pakistan and northern India. |
| The magnitude 7.5 quake was centred in the mountainous Hindu Kush region, 45km (28 miles) south-west of Jarm, the US Geological Survey reported. | |
| In Pakistan, local news channels showed people evacuating office buildings. | In Pakistan, local news channels showed people evacuating office buildings. |
| There is no official word on casualties but one report said four people had been killed in north-west Pakistan. | |
| Officials said the quake happened at a depth of 212km (133 miles). The magnitude was initially put at 7.7 but later downgraded. | |
| A BBC correspondent in the Pakistani city of Lahore said phone lines were down following the quake. | 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 and schools and offices were evacuated. The Delhi metro was also briefly halted. | |
| 'Potentially damaging' | |
| Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that he had ordered an urgent assessment of any damage. | |
| "We stand ready for assistance where required, including Afghanistan and Pakistan," he said. | |
| David Rothery, a professor of planetary geosciences at the UK's Open University, said the quake had the potential to be very damaging. | |
| "Fortunately it occurred at a depth of more than 200km and so the shaking of the ground surface was less than it would have been for a shallower earthquake of the same magnitude," he said. | |
| The region has a history of powerful earthquakes caused by the northward collision of India with central Asia. | |
| In 2005, a magnitude 7.6 quake in Pakistan-administered Kashmir left more than 75,000 people dead. | |
| In April this year, Nepal suffered its worst earthquake on record with 9,000 people killed and about 900,000 homes damaged or destroyed. | |
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