ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s upper areas including Islamabad and Peshawar felt tremors of earthquake at 0551am and 0553am this morning, Geo News reported Monday.
According to Karachi’s Seismic Center, the upper areas of the country including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Abbottabad, Mansehra, Haripur, Swat and Mardan were jolted by earthquake at 0551am.
These tremors were felt also in Parachinar, Khyber Agency, Kurram Agency and Orakzai and Malakand agencies and Afghanistan provinces of Nangarhar, Paktia and Khost.
According to Karachi’s Seismic Monitoring center, the 5.0-magnitude quake had its epicenter 119 kilometers northwest of Peshawar.
Earlier at 0103am, various areas in Chitral and Swat also felt the tremors with magnitude 4 at Richter Scale.
The epicenter was 74 kilometers northeast from Chitral at 10-kilometer depth. The people came out of their houses in panic; however, no report regarding untoward incident was received thus far.
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