An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 has hit a remote area of south western Pakistan.
The strong quake struck a remote mountainous part of the country at 4.29pm local time (12.29BST) around 100 kilometres (60 miles) southwest of the city of Khuzdar in Balochistan province, at a depth of 15 kilometres.
It was felt as far away as the Indian capital of New Delhi, hundreds of miles to the east, where buildings shook.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, but many of the buildings in that part of the country are made of weak materials and there were fears a death toll could grow.
The United States Geological Survey issued a red alert for the quake, warning that heavy casualties were likely, based on past data.
Tremors were felt across the province as well as in the sprawling port city of Karachi, residents said. People in Ahmedabad in India, hundreds of miles from the eipcentre, ran out of buildings and into the street.
A senior Pakistani meteorologist, Muhammad Riaz, told Dunya TV station it was a "major" earthquake and "heavy destruction" was likely.
Mumtaz Baluch, senior local administration official in Awaran district, 350 kilometres southwest of Quetta, told AFP: "There are reports of houses being collapsed in the district due to earthquake."
"We also have initial information about injuries to people as a result of the collapse of houses but there are no reports of any deaths."
"We have dispatched our teams to the affected area to ascertain the losses."
People working in offices Karachi rushed out of their building and sat on the footpaths along the roads or stood away from the buildings.
Noor Jabeen, a 28-year woman working for an insurance company said: "My work table jerked a bit and again and I impulsively rushed outside."
"Whenever I feel jolts it reminds me of the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir," said Amjad Ali, 45, IT official standing on the road said.
A 7.6 magnitude quake in 2005 centred in Kashmir, killed at least 73,000 people and left several million homeless in one of the worst natural disasters to hit Pakistan.
The epicentre is in a remote, thinly populated mountainous area of Balochistan populated mainly by subsistence farmers.
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