Magnitude 5.0 earthquake hits Peshawar and other areas

ISLAMABAD: An earthquake of 5.0 magnitude struck the capital city of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on the Tuesday afternoon.

According to preliminary data, the epicenter was located approximately 20 kilometers from the neighbouring country, Afghanistan, with tremors reported at 4pm Pakistan Standard Time. The quake’s depth and precise coordinates have yet to be officially confirmed.

The tremors were also felt in other areas surrounding the capital city, according to initial reports.

The intensity caused panic in several cities, with residents rushing out of homes and buildings.

This is not the first time that tremors were felt in the September.

In the first week of the ongoing month, a strong quake hit Afghanistan and the upper parts of Pakistan, which were felt in KPK, Kashmir, Islamabad and upper Punjab.

The epicenter of the 6.2 magnitude earthquake was in northeastern Afghanistan 32 kilometres northeast of Jalalabad at a depth of 10 kilometres, initial reports of the time had said.

Earthquake of magnitude 6.2 shakes upper Pakistan, Afghanistan

In the second week of this month, another powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck off Russia’s Far East Kamchatka peninsula, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported.

The tremor occurred 111 kilometres (69 miles) east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the administrative hub of the Kamchatka region, at a depth of 39.5 kilometres. USGS initially placed the magnitude at 7.5 before revising it downward.