- The tremors hit Peshawar, Malakand, Bajaur, dir.
- Quake shakes the cities of Punjab, including Mianwali, Chakwal, fine.
- Neelum Valley and Dhirkot in Ajk also report tremors.
An earthquake of 5.9 magnitude on Thursday shook Islamabad, Rawalpindi and several parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said the seismic monitoring center of the Department of Meteorology of Pakistan (PMD).
According to the seismological center, the epicenter of the Quake was in the Hindu region of Kush of Afghanistan at a depth of 111 kilometers.
Tremors were reported in Peshawar, Lower Dir, Upper Dir, Malakand, Bajaur, Mohmand, Shabqadar, Charsadda and Parachinar, as well as Nowshera, Hagu and Kohat. Choques were also felt in Mansehra, Abbottabad, Swat and Attock.
In Punjab, Jolts were experienced in Mianwali, Chakwal, Talagang, Kallar Kahar and adjacent areas, while Finech also reported tremors. In Islamabad and Rawalpindi, the strong clashes led residents to run outdoors.
In Azad Jammu and Kashmir, people in Neelum Valley and Dhirkot felt tremors.
No immediate reports from victims or damage have been received.
Several earthquakes have reached the region of Afghanistan-Pakistan, which is at the intersection of Indian and Eurastic tectonic plates.
In neighboring Afghanistan, the number of deaths for a powerful earthquake that hit the eastern part of the country in the weekend increased abruptly to more than 2,200, according to a new toll, which made it the deadliest in decades to reach the country.
The vast majority of those killed in the earthquake of magnitude 6.0 that shook the mountainous region that limited Pakistan on Sunday night in the province of Kunar, where 2,205 people died and 3,640 were injured, according to a toll of the Taliban government.
