Four people were injured in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad after the 6.7-magnitude quake struck at 2:48 am (2148 GMT Monday) with an epicentre in the remote Hindu Kush mountains of northeastern Afghanistan.

"One house has been destroyed. So far we've received four wounded people, three of them slightly and only one woman was badly injured," said Ayoob Shinwari, a doctor at a Jalalabad hospital.

"Preliminary reports taken from all the provinces were that there were no casualties. But we are asking them to check again," Afghanistan's interior ministry spokesman Yousuf Stanizai told AFP.

No damage was immediately reported either, Stanizai said.

Witnesses said it felt like the strongest tremor since the 7.6-magnitude earthquake on October 8 that killed more than 73,000 people in Pakistan alone.

That quake also left around 3.5 million people homeless, mainly in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and parts of the North West Frontier Province.

In Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir, many survivors of the October quake rushed from their tents and from houses still left standing by the original disaster.

"It was very strong. People came out of their tents and started screaming and reciting verses from the Koran," resident Sarfraz Ahmad said.

"The people living in buildings spared by the big quake were the most terrified," he added.

"Now everyone is getting back into their shelters. They are reluctant, but they have no choice because the cold is unbearable." Despite the panic, Pakistani and Indian officials reported no immediate casualties.

"Our men are surveying positions in remote villages but there are no casualties so far," said a police spokesman in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, where over 1,300 people were killed in the October disaster.