An earthquake struck Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing seven people and injuring dozens more.

An earthquake struck Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing seven people and injuring dozens more, according to local officials.

The quake struck at 09:25 GMT at a depth of 65 kilometers (40 miles). Its epicenter was 25 kilometers northwest of the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad near the Pakistani border.

The US Geological Survey said the magnitude of the quake was 5.7 with strong tremors felt in Afghanistan's capital Kabul and in Islamabad in neighboring Pakistan. Pakistan’s meteorological office put the magnitude at 6.2.

Afghanistan is frequently hit by earthquakes, especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range which lies near the juncture of the Eurasian and the Indian tectonic plates.

In June 2012 two quakes in the area triggered landslides that killed at least 75 villagers.

Wednesday’s tremors came a week after a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake centered in Iran affected thousands of people in remote southeastern Pakistan and killed 41 people.

Pakistani victims have staged angry protests, accusing the government of failing to provide adequate relief after hundreds of homes were destroyed or damaged.

On October 8, 2005 a 7.6-magnitude earthquake killed more than 73,000 people and left about 3.5 million homeless, mainly in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and parts of northwestern province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.