Earthquake tremors were felt in many cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, a private TV channel reported Tuesday evening.
A bulletin posted by the National Seismic Monitoring Centre Islamabad confirmed that an earthquake of 5.6 magnitude on the Richter scale struck at around 9:47pm and had a depth of 40 kilometres. The region identified by the monitoring centre is 104km northeast of Muzaffarabad in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
In Punjab, reports of tremors came from Lahore, Sialkot, and Jhelum. Islamabad residents also confirmed they felt mild to moderate tremors. In KP, residents of Shangla, Lower Dir and its surrounding districts experienced tremors and reported aftershocks as well. Tremors were also felt in the entire Northern region of the country, including Malakand division and Gilgit-Baltistan. No loss of human life or property damage has so far been reported.
This is the second earthquake to occur within a span of three days. On February 2, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake had jolted several cities in parts of country, including Peshawar, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Kohat, Swat, Mianwali and Sargodha.
Published in Daily Times, February 6th 2019.
