Islamabad: Tuesday's earthquake, which had a magnitude of 6.5, terrified people in even the most remote villages and sent panicked residents running from their homes and places of business. Nine people, at least, died.

According to Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for Pakistan's emergency services, more than 100 people were taken to hospitals in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province's Swat valley region in a state of shock.

Some of these terrified people actually passed out from the shock of the earthquake, he claimed. Most, according to Faizi, were later released from the hospital.

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Nine people, according to Faizi and other officials, were killed in several locations throughout northwest Pakistan when roofs collapsed. The earthquake, which was centred in Afghanistan and also felt in neighbouring Tajikistan, also left dozens of people hurt. In some of the mountainous regions, the earthquake caused landslides, which disrupted traffic.

According to Taimoor Khan, a spokesman for the northwest province's disaster management organisation, at least 19 mudbrick homes have collapsed in isolated areas. He stated, "We are still gathering information regarding the damages.

Many people in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, fled their homes and places of business as a result of the strong tremors, some while reciting passages from the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam. According to media reports, some city flat buildings have developed cracks.

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In Kabul and other regions of Afghanistan, the same scene was repeated.
Shafiullah Azimi, a resident of Kabul, said, "The quake was so strong and terrifying, we thought houses were collapsing on us. People were all shouting and were shocked."

According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake's epicentre was situated 40 kilometres (25 miles) south-southeast of Jurm in the mountainous Hindukush region of Afghanistan, which borders Pakistan and Tajikistan. It stated that the earthquake was at a depth of 187.6 kilometres (116 miles).

A doctor named Rakhshinda Tauseed claimed to have been at her hospital in the city of Lahore in eastern Pakistan when the earthquake struck. I quickly told the patients to relocate to a more secure area, she said.

Khurram Shahzad, a resident of Rawalpindi, a garrison city in Pakistan, claimed that the walls of the restaurant where he was dining with his family were shaking.

He told The Associated Press over the phone, "I quickly thought that it is a big one, and we left the restaurant and came out. He claimed to have observed hundreds of people gathered in the streets. People could be seen standing in front of their homes and workplaces in Peshawar, the capital of the Afghan border province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

In a statement, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said he asked emergency management personnel to be on high alert to deal with any situation. The primary Taliban government spokesperson in Afghanistan, Zabihullah Mujahid, tweeted that the Ministry of Public Health had ordered all medical facilities to be prepared.

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Violent seismic upheavals frequently occur in the area. In Pakistan and Kashmir, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in 2005 resulted in thousands of fatalities. A 6.1 magnitude earthquake that struck a rough, mountainous region in southeast Afghanistan last year flattened stone and mud-brick homes. The UN has provided a lower estimate of 770 deaths, while the Taliban government in Afghanistan has put the final death toll from the earthquake at 1,150, with hundreds more injured.