A solid quake shook portions of Pakistan on Tuesday night.



There were no immediate reports of casualties from the quake.

Pakistan’s Meteorological Department said the earthquake measured at magnitude 6.8, with the epicenter being in the Hindu Kush mountain range near the remote northern Afghan province of Badakhshan.

According to preliminary information, the US Geological Survey (USGS) put the magnitude slightly lower, at 6.5.

The USGS said the epicenter was 40 kilometers (25 miles) south-southeast of the Afghan town of Jurm, near the borders with Pakistan and Tajikistan.

Initial reports said the tremor was felt in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, as well as several Pakistani cities, including Islamabad and Lahore.

Witnesses also reported feeling the shaking in Indian-occupied Kashmir, as well as in India’s capital, New Delhi.

Large parts of South Asia are seismically active because a tectonic plate known as the Indian is pushing north into the Eurasian plate.

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake in eastern Afghanistan killed over 1,000 people last year.