Quake jolts Islamabad, Rawalpindi, KP cities

A 4.7-magnitude earthquake hits parts of Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, says the National Seismic Monitoring Centre.

The tremors were felt across the twin cities as well as cities across the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Peshawar, Swat, Parachinar, Malakand, Lower Dir, Hangu, Charsadda, Swabi and their surrounding areas were jolted by the tremors. The same were also recorded in North and South Waziristan.

The National Seismic Monitoring Centre said the earthquake’s epicenter was the Afghanistan’s southeastern region while its depth was 98 kilometres.

Earlier, an earthquake of 3.2 magnitude jolted parts of Karachi including the Clifton neighbourhood.

The quake’s epicentre was 15 kilometres northeast of Karachi at a depth of 22km, according to the seismic monitoring centre.