ISLAMABAD: Various parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Islamabad experienced tremors late Sunday as National Seismic Monitoring Centre (NSMC) recorded the 5.4 intensity on the Richter scale.
According to NSMC, the epicenter of the earthquake was Afghanistan. The depth of the earthquake was 32 km and its magnitude on the Richter scale was 5.4.
No loss of life has been reported after the earthquake.
This year in June, Earthquake tremors were felt in most parts of northern Pakistan, including Islamabad and Peshawar. The magnitude of the earthquake was recorded to be 5.1 and its epicentre was the Hindu Kush mountains along the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border while its depth was recorded at 222km.
Last year in December, an earthquake of magnitude 4.1 jolted Karachi. The earthquake of this magnitude in Karachi shocked the seismic experts as they had never earlier recorded an earthquake of such strength with epicenter within the provincial capital city.
