ISLAMABAD: Major cities such as Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, and several regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab experienced fear on Saturday morning as a 5.9-magnitude earthquake shook sections of Pakistan.
Residents fled their homes and places of employment in terror when the earthquakes, which were the third in a week, were detected at 11:47 a.m.
The epicenter, which was 94 kilometers deep and situated in latitude 36.21 N and longitude 71.34 E, was close to the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border region, according to the National Seismic Monitoring Centre.
