A major earthquake has hit northerly Afghanistan this morning . It was also felt in Pakistan and northern India .
agree to the US geologic sight , the earthquake had a magnitude of 7.7 and was center on in a mountainous region 158 international mile north - east of the Afghan capital of Kabul at a profoundness of 133 mile . It occurred at around 2:10 p.m local metre ( 5:10 a.m. ET ) . Associated Press reports that tremors were matte up in Kabul for 45 seconds . Power has been cut and telephone line are down .
The provincial director of the interior disaster management confidence , Abdullah Humayoon Dehqan , has told the Associated Press that “ there are study of casualty and destruction ” in some part of Afghanistan .

Update 7:03 AM ET : Reports of injury and death are begin to appear on-line . So far , the Guardian reports , there have been : five death and 55 hoi polloi injured at Nangahar provincial hospital in Afghanistan ; 12 death and 30 injuries at a girls ’ school Takhar state in Afghanistan ; 12 people defeat and 50 spite in the northwestern region of Pakistan . The figures are look to rise .
Update 7:54 AM ET : The Guardian isnow reportingthat at least 43 people have been killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan . Experts have been pointing out that because communicating links appear to have gone down in many of the the worst - affect region , it ’s unlikely that the true impact will be revealed for some time .
news report evoke that the quake was sense in in the Pakistani metropolis of Lahore and the Amerindic Das Kapital Delhi . As yet there are no official statistics about casualties . However , NBC Newsdoes point out thatthat the seism comes just days after all-inclusive rains across Afghanistan , which will have made mud - work up house and construction with shallow foundations more susceptible to damage .

Here are some prototype surfacing on Twitter of the quake ’s effect :
JUST IN : picture from#Hunzawhere an entire glacier has come falling down . ( via@FarhanKVirk)#earthquakepic.twitter.com / pgK3x9oDtu
— Skymet ( @SkymetWeather)October 26 , 2015

https://twitter.com/embed/status/658586004379439104
JUST IN:#earthquakeimage from#Kashmir(via@ahmermkhan)pic.twitter.com / tZspqxaiPg
AFGearthquakedamaged intrance door of#Ghazniprovince#earthquakepic.twitter.com/634Aph2wzr

— Shakir Azizi 💧 🇦 🇫 ( @shakirazizi)October 26 , 2015
In 2005 , a 7.6 order of magnitude temblor impinge on nearby Kashmir killing at least 75,000 multitude . Earlier thus year , Nepal suffer a 7.8 order of magnitude quake that claimed 9,000 life .
This tidings is breaking . We ’ll update it as we learn more .

Top image by AP . Map by USGS .
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