At least 13 people were killed and more than 90 injured in Pakistan and Afghanistan in a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that hit late Tuesday night, government officials from the two Asian countries said.

The quake’s epicenter was in a sparsely populated region of Afghanistan, but it was felt in at least eight countries.

At least nine people were killed and 44 injured in northwestern Pakistan, with hospitals in northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province placed on emergency overnight, a Pakistani government official said.

At least four people have died and 50 have been injured in Afghanistan, an Afghan health ministry official said.

Authorities said houses and buildings in both countries were also damaged.

According to the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center, the earthquake was felt over an area of ​​more than 1,000 kilometers by about 285 million people in Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan.

According to the US Geological Survey, the epicenter was in the Hindu Kush mountains in the sparsely populated northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan, 40 km southeast of the village of Jurm, at a significant depth of about 187 km.

In Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a senior provincial official said at least 19 houses were damaged in addition to the dead and injured.

Source: Reuters, CNN.