The U.S. Geological Survey said an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale hit Afghanistan on Saturday, but there has been no report on life or property losses so far from local officials.
The epicenter lies in the Hindu Kush range, 275 km northeast of the Afghan capital and the depth of the quake is 177.6 km, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its website.
The quake was felt in the country's capital Kabul and several provinces at 10:17 a.m. local time (GMT 0547) when houses were trembling and many residents had rushed out to open ground.
"We have not received any report on casualties but the checking with provinces is going on," an official at the interior ministry told Xinhua but refused to be named.
Munshi Abdul Majid, governor of the mountainous Badakhshan province located on the Hindu Kush range, told Xinhua that his office had checked with several districts and received no reports of quake-caused casualties.
Islamabad, capital of neighboring country Pakistan, also reported the feeling of the quake on Saturday. In Oct. 2005, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in northern Pakistan killed over 80,000 people.
Source: Xinhua
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