DHAKA: A 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck in northern Pakistan and was felt in Afghanistan and India Monday afternoon.

‘The tremors continued for 30 to 40 seconds,’ Al Jazeera reports.

No casualties have been reported yet.

Dawn reports “tremors have been felt in major cities, including Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Quetta, Kohat and Malakand” in Pakistan.

Strong tremors were also felt in Kabul and New Delhi, it added.

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck in northeastern Afghanistan on Monday, the United States Geological Survey said.

The quake was 196 km deep and centered 82 km southeast of Feyzabad in a remote area of Afghanistan in the Hindu Kush mountain range.

The Pakistan Meteorological Department said the magnitude of the earthquake was 8.1.

Communication services have been disrupted in Islamabad.

Citizens took to social media to post reports of the massive quake that lasted for up to one minute.

In pictures shared by Islamabad residents on Twitter, people are seen standing on roads after feeling tremors.

BDST: 1547 HRS, OCT 26, 2015
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