Moderate earthquake rattles northern Pakistan, Afghanistan; no damage reported

Quake hits north Pakistan, Afghanistan; no damage

ISLAMABAD — A moderate earthquake has rattled northern Pakistan and Afghanistan but there are no reports of injuries or damage.

Pakistani government meteorologist Qamar Zaman Chaudhry says the quake happened at 4:21 a.m. Pakistan time on Sunday (2321 GMT; 6:21 p.m. EDT on Saturday).

It was felt in northern Pakistan and in Kabul, the capital of neighboring Afghanistan.

The U.S. Geological Survey says it was magnitude 5.7, and was centered in the Hindu Kush mountains 110 miles (175 kilometers) northeast of Kabul.

Earthquakes often rattle the region. A magnitude 7.6 quake on Oct. 8, 2005, killed about 80,000 people in northwestern Pakistan and Kashmir and left more than 3 million homeless.