Deaths and injuries have also been reported in the Afghan provinces of Nangarhar, Badakhshan and Kunar, with at least 35 killed in total.
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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has directed the crisis cell to gather information about damages and loss of lives.
“I have asked for an urgent assessment and we stand ready for assistance where required, including Afghanistan & Pakistan”, the Prime Minister added.
In India, the tremors shook the whole of northern part of the country including Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
People in Afghan capital Kabul, India’s capital New Delhi and Pakistan’s capital Islamabad reported feeling strong tremors.
At least 64 people were killed and over 400 others injured when an quake measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale hit Pakistan on Monday, local media and met office reported. Including the toll from a major aftershock in May, 9,000 people died and 900,000 homes were damaged or destroyed.
Monday’s 7.5 magnitude quake struck Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush region, and has been felt throughout much of South Asia.
People were evacuated from buildings in the capitals of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, the BBC says, with “communications disrupted in many areas”.
The toll in Pakistan alone climbed to 100, with almost 90 percent deaths reported in the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, said Reema Zuberi, a spokeswoman for the National Disaster Management Authority.
The quake was felt in most of the northern parts of Pakistan including such major cities as Peshawar, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Sargodha, Quetta and Multan, officials said.
September 20, 2011: At least 68 people were killed and over 300 injured in a quake of 6.8 magnitude that struck Sikkim.
Dr Muhammad Sadiq, the head of emergency services at a government hospital in Peshawar said the injured were still being brought in.
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Elsewhere in Khyber-Pakhtunkwa, three people were killed in Mansehra, two in Charsadda, and 13 people were killed in Chitral, which fell closest to the quake’s epicentre. So far came at least twelve people killed, Pakistani police said. Early reports suggest around 40 deaths – if you have been impacted please tell us what you are experiencing now,”she wrote”.
