A robust earthquake shook northern Pakistan and was felt in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, and India’s capital New Delhi on Tuesday.
Residents in Islamabad fled their properties as partitions began swaying and the 30-second lasting quake was felt throughout the nation. Pakistan’s meteorological workplace mentioned the earthquake was a magnitude 7.7.
The U.S. Geological Survey mentioned the quake was a magnitude 6.5.
The quake epicenter was 40 kilometers (25 miles) south-southeast of the Afghan city of Jurm, close to the borders with Pakistan and Tajikistan.
It struck at a depth of greater than 185 miles, USGS mentioned.
There have been no fast reviews of damages or accidents.
“People ran out of their houses and were reciting the Koran,” an AFP correspondent in Rawalpindi mentioned, with related reviews coming from the capital Islamabad, Lahore and elsewhere within the nation.
The space is ceaselessly hit by earthquakes, particularly within the Hindu Kush mountain vary, which lies close to the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake in japanese Afghanistan killed over 1,000 individuals final yr.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
