Islamabad:
An earthquake of 5.9 magnitude shook Islamabad, Rawalpindi and parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday night, according to the seismic monitoring center.
The earthquake originated at 9:56 pm at a depth of 111 kilometers with its epicenter in the Hindu Kush region.
They felt tremors in Mansehra, Hagu, Abbottabad, Swat, Atock, Malakand, Rawalpindi and Islamabad, said the seismic monitoring center.
The PTV News state station said in X that the tremors “lasted several seconds” and caused citizens to leave their homes.
A declaration of the Punjab Provincial Disaster Management Authority said he received initial reports from an earthquake of “all districts” in the province.
No immediate reports from victims or damage were received.
On Tuesday, they felt tremors in Peshawar, Mansehra and Islamabad after another earthquake hit East Afghanistan.
A PMD statement indicated that the Earthquake of magnitude of 5.4 had occurred at 5:30 pm in southeast Afghanistan at a depth of 22 km with treated tremors in Peshawar, Mansehra, Islamabad, Abbottabad and Swat.
Meanwhile, the death toll of the powerful earthquake that hit East of Afghanistan in the weekend increased abruptly to more than 2,200 on Thursday, according to a new toll, which makes it the most deadly in decades to reach the neighboring country.
The vast majority of those killed in the earthquake of magnitude 6.0 that shook the mountain region 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.
Another 12 people were killed and hundreds of wounds in the neighboring provinces of Nangarhar and Laghman.
The toll was expected to rise as volunteers and rescuers were still taking out bodies from the debris.
