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| Afghanistan earthquake: Strong 6.2 magnitude quake strikes near Pakistan border as tremors rattle Kabul | Afghanistan earthquake: Strong 6.2 magnitude quake strikes near Pakistan border as tremors rattle Kabul |
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| Afghanistan has been struck by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake close to its border with Pakistan, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). | |
| Tremors have been reported in Kabul and felt in a number of other densely-populated locations in the region including Islamabad, Delhi, Lahore, Bahawalpur, Kashmir and Abotabbad. | |
| The USGS located the epicentre of the quake 22 miles south of Jarm in the Hindu Kush mountains in the country's northeast at a depth of 119 miles below the surface. | |
| So far no fatalities have been reported. | So far no fatalities have been reported. |
| In neighbouring Pakistan, local TV news footage showed workers fleeing office buildings in a state of panic. | |
| This is the latest disaster to hit Afghanistan in recent weeks, following the killing of 11 soldiers in an Isis-claimed terror attack on an army base, the deaths of 103 in a Taliban suicide mission involving an ambulance packed with explosives and the bombing of Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel, in which 14 people died. | |
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