The magnitude 7.5 earthquake shook South Asia, at least 100 people died

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan and large-scale residents from northern Pakistan to India also felt shakes.

Powerful earthquake of 7.5 Richter scale in Afghanistan

Location of epicenter in Afghanistan.(Graphic: Myforecast).

According to Reuters, earthquake epicenter was 196km deep, 82km from Feyzabad to the southeast. This is a remote area in Afghanistan, located in the Hindu Kush Mountains.

The US Geological Survey initially argued that earthquakes were 7.7 on the Richter scale, but then dropped to 7.6 and then 7.5.

The buildings shook violently in Kabul and people across northwest Pakistan, Punjab province, the central region also felt shakes. Pakistani health officials and police said at least four people died and dozens were injured in the country, after the quake rocked neighboring Afghanistan.

Hundreds of people in affected areas ran out of buildings as the ground shook at their feet."We are very scared. We remember God , " said Pakistani journalist Zubair Khan. "I was in the car at the time. When I stopped, the car shook like someone pushed it," he added.

Catherine Bhatti, British, is visiting relatives in Sarghoda, Pakistan when the earthquake struck."Everything starts to move slightly and then gets stronger , " she said. "My interpreter, who lives his whole life here, says they have never experienced anything like this."

There are about 24 people dying from the incident in Afghanistan. In it, 12 girls were killed by trampling when trying to escape the school in the northern city of Taloqan. According to the local hospital director, six people died and 69 were injured in Nangahar province, eastern Afghanistan, however, the leader of a charity group said the number of people killed was 7.

Reuters quoted officials as saying the number of people killed in Pakistan was up to 76 people.

The project collapsed in Ghazni, southwestern Kabul after the earthquake.(Photo: BBC).

In Afghanistan, international aid agencies working in the northern region reported that they still could not use the phone for several hours after the earthquake."A lot of phone lines still don't work," said Scott Anderson, a United Nations official in Kabul.

Badakhshan governor, Shah Waliullah Adib, said about 400 houses were destroyed here, but he did not have any casualties.

The buildings also shook for more than a minute in New Delhi, the capital of India, causing office workers to run to the street. The BBC quoted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Twitter's social networking account that he ordered an urgent assessment of any damage."We are willing to support where needed, like Afghanistan and Pakistan," he said.

This hilly area has witnessed strong earthquakes, hit by the Indian subcontinent to the north with Central Asia.

The incident happened nearly 6 months after Nepal on April 24 experienced the worst earthquake in history. Including the number of people killed by a major aftershock in May, a total of 9,000 were killed and 900,000 houses were destroyed or destroyed.

In 2005, a 7.6-magnitude Richter quake shook the Pakistani-controlled Kashmir area, killing more than 75,000 people.