Residents in Balochistan’s Zhob region were alarmed early on Monday morning after two consecutive tremors shook the area.
The first earthquake struck at a depth of 35 kilometers and had a Richter scale magnitude of 5, according to the National Seismic Monitoring Centre in Islamabad. Zhob was situated 106 kilometers south of the epicentre.
The US Geological Survey reports that this earthquake occurred at a depth of only 10 kilometers, 61 kilometers north of the Kohlu area.
A second tremor struck the same location less than an hour later, with a Richter scale value of 3.9. The epicentre of this earthquake was located 79 km south of Zhob and had a greater depth of 151 km.
