Islamabad:
An earthquake of 5.9 in size shook Islamabad, Rawalpindi and parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday night, according to the Seismic Monitoring Center.
The quake dates from 7 p.m. 21.56 at a depth of 111 kilometers with his episent in the Hindu Kush region.
Shakes were marked in Mansehra, Hangu, Abbottabad, Swat, Attock, Malakand, Rawal Pindi and Islamabad, says the seismic surveillance center.
State TV Station PTV News said on X The Tremors “lasted for several seconds” and caused citizens to get out of their homes.
A statement from Punjab Provincial Disaster Management Authority said it received initial reports of an earthquake from “all districts” in the province.
No immediate reports of loss or damage were received.
On Tuesday, shivers were felt in Peshawar, Mansehra and Islamabad after another earthquake hit eastern Afghanistan.
An PMD declaration noted that the earthquake with 5.4 size had occurred at. 17:30 in southeastern Afghanistan at a depth of 22 km with shaking felt all the way in Peshawar, Mansehra, Islamabad, Abbottabad and Swat.
Meanwhile, the death toll from the powerful earthquake that hit eastern Afghanistan rose sharply over the weekend, according to a new road tax, making it the deadliest in decades to hit the neighboring country.
The vast majority of those killed in the size of the earthquake 6.0 who shook the mountainous region late Sunday were in Kunar Province, where 2,205 people died and 3,640 were injured, according to a Taliban government.
Another 12 people were killed and hundreds wounded in the nearby provinces of Nangarhar and Laghman.
That toll was expected to rise as volunteers and rescuers still pulled bodies from the rubble.
