The United States Geological Survey said the epicentre was 40 km northwest of the region's largest city of Herat and was followed by five aftershocks.
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake in western Afghanistan killed 14 people and injured 78, an official said, predicting the toll could rise amid reports of people buried under collapsed buildings.
"We were in our offices and suddenly the building started shaking," 45-year-old Herat resident Bashir Ahmad told AFP."Wall plasters started to fall down and the walls got cracks, some walls and parts of the building collapsed." USGS had earlier reported the first quake's magnitude as 6.2. It had a shallow depth of just 14 kilometres, it said.
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