Survivors of a powerful earthquake that turned homes in Afghanistan into rubble are now wondering where they can they find shelter from pouring rain and the coming winter cold.

Others who made it through an even deadlier quake two months ago share their anxiety.

This week's 6.3-magnitude tremor that rattled the northern provinces of Samangan and Balkh killed at least 27 people, the Taliban authorities say.

The epicentre was located in Samangan's Kholm district, where a man named Gulabuddin is mourning his daughter-in-law.

When disaster hit overnight Sunday into Monday, she did not manage to reach the ground level of the family home in time.

Gulabuddin himself was hit in the head by a falling brick.

"We lost all of our belongings," he told AFP.

"Winter is coming. We have children age

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