Earthquake hits Afghanistan, Pakistan

A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck northeastern Afghanistan on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, shaking the capital Kabul and sending shockwaves that were felt in north India and Pakistan.

Here's the latest Reuters earthquake update. Death toll crosses 300. Latest images here

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 10:09:50 AM

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A magnitude 7.5 quake struck northeast Afghanistan on Monday. Shockwaves were felt in north India and Pakistan, where officials said four people had been killed.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 10:01:49 AM
The quake was 196 km (120 miles) deep and centred 82 km (51 miles) southeast of Feyzabad in a remote area of Afghanistan in the Hindu Kush mountain range.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 10:02:18 AM
The U.S. Geological Survey initially measured the quake's intensity at 7.7, then revised it down to 7.6 and later to 7.5.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 10:02:46 AM
Buildings shook violently in Kabul and tremors were felt across northwestern Pakistan and its central Punjab province.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 10:03:02 AM
Buildings shook for well over a minute in the Indian capital, New Delhi, sending office workers scurrying onto the streets.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 10:03:10 AM
The earthquake struck almost exactly six months after Nepal suffered its worst quake on record, on April 24. Including the toll from a major aftershock in May, 9,000 people lost their lives and damaging or destroying 900,000 homes.

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Screengrab from USGS website, showing where the earthquake hit

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 10:13:18 AM
At least four people were killed and scores injured in northeastern Pakistan, Pakistani health officials and police said.

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People stand on a road after vacating buildings following an earthquake in Srinagar October 26, 2015. REUTERS/Danish Ismail

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Men stand on a road divider after vacating their office buildings in Islamabad, Pakistan, October 26, 2015. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 10:20:16 AM
A Dawn report says at least 13 people have died in Pakistan.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 10:24:27 AM
In northwestern Pakistan, at least 12 people were killed, including one in the city of Peshawar, according to government officials.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 10:47:01 AM
Injured people were pouring into Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital, an official said.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 10:47:35 AM
We received 50 injured and more are being shifted. The injured suffered multiple injuries due to building collapse.

Syed Jamil Shah, spokesman of the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 10:50:19 AM
International aid agencies working in the northern areas of Afghanistan reported that cell phone coverage in the affected areas remained down in the hour after the initial quake.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 10:50:43 AM
In India, Kashmir experienced intense and prolonged tremors that caused panic in areas that suffered severe flooding last year. Power supplies and most mobile networks were knocked out, and there was structural damage to roads and buildings.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 10:51:16 AM
JUST IN: 12 schoolgirls killed in Afghan city of Taloqan trying to escape earthquake - head of provincial disaster agency.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 11:00:03 AM
In the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, 5 people were killed and 55 injured, said Najibullah Kamawal, head of the provincial hospital, adding that the total could rise.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 11:09:25 AM
Latest Reuters update puts number of dead at 29 - 17 in Afghanistan and 12 in Pakistan.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 11:12:42 AM
Rescue workers move a man, who was injured during the earthquake, at the Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, October 26, 2015. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

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A man walks past the rubble of a house after it was damaged by an earthquake in Mingora, Swat, Pakistan October 26, 2015. REUTERS/Hazrat Ali Bacha

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 11:50:46 AM
KABUL, Oct 26 (Reuters) - At least 17 people have been killed and 55 injured in a powerful earthquake that hit northeastern Afghanistan on Monday, according to early reports and the toll may rise, officials said.

In the eastern city of Jalalabad, 5 people were killed and 55 injured, said Najibullah Kamawal, head of the provincial hospital, adding that the total could rise.

In the city of Taloqan, 12 girls were crushed in a stampede as people rushed out of a school when the quake hit, according to the head of the provincial disaster management agency, Abdul Razaq Zinda.

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Screengrab of the earthquake location from the USGS website

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 12:01:57 PM
The death toll could climb because communications were down in much of the rugged Hindu Kush mountain range area where the quake was centred.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 12:07:01 PM
They fell under the feet of other students.

Abdul Razaq Zinda, provincial head of the Afghan National Disaster Management Agency, after a panicked evacuation at a girls' school killed at least 12 students in the Afghan province of Takhar.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 12:10:03 PM
Rescue workers move a girl, who was injured in the earthquake, at a hospital in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, October 26, 2015. REUTERS/Parwiz

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 12:12:19 PM
We were very scared ... We saw people leaving buildings, and we were remembering our God.
Pakistani journalist Zubair Khan on telephone from the Swat Valley northwest of the capital, Islamabad.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 12:13:59 PM
Hardest hit in Pakistan was the northern province of Chitral, where 11 people were killed, Chitral police official Shah Jehan said.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 12:14:39 PM
We are not able to contact people in remote areas due to telephone lines being down, so there are chances that the death toll could rise.
Shah Jehan, police official in Chitral, Pakistan.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 12:15:46 PM
In Afghanistan, Badakhshan provincial governor Shah Waliullah Adib said about 400 houses were destroyed but he had no figures on casualties.

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An Afghan woman rushes to a hospital to check on her daughter who was injured, after an earthquake at a hospital in Jalalabad, Afghanistan October 26, 2015. REUTERS/ Parwiz

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A man clears rubble after part of his house collapsed during an earthquake, at a hospital in Jalalabad, Afghanistan October 26, 2015. REUTERS/Parwiz

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by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 12:54:15 PM
Death toll could climb in coming days as communications were down in much of the rugged Hindu Kush mountain range area where the quake was centred.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 12:55:11 PM
In Afghanistan, a total of 24 were reported dead on Monday including 12 schoolgirls in the northeastern province of Takhar, seven people in the eastern province of Nangarhar, two in Nuristan province in the northeast and three in eastern Kunar province.

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 12:56:49 PM
I was thrown from one side of the road to the other by the strength of the earthquake.
Journalist Gul Hammad Farooqi, who said his house in Chitral, Pakistan had collapsed.

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Vehicles jam the road after a flyover was briefly closed to vehicular traffic following the earthquake, in Srinagar, India October 26, 2015. REUTERS/Danish Ismail

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 1:29:27 PM
Residents clear the rubble of a house after it was damaged by the earthquake, in Peshawar, Pakistan October 26, 2015. REUTERS/Khuram Parvez

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A man carries a boy, who was injured in the earthquake, at the Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan October 26, 2015. REUTERS/Khuram Parvez

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Residents walk past the rubble of a house after it was damaged by the earthquake in Mingora, Swat, Pakistan, October 26, 2015. REUTERS/Hazrat Ali Bacha

by Reuters_TonyTharakan 10/26/2015 2:04:24 PM

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