SWAT: The tremors of magnitude 4.1 and 4.7 on the Richter Scale rattled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Mingora an
d adjoining areas in Swat in the wee hours of Tuesday.
According to the National Seismic Monitoring Centre (NSMC), the two tremors of the quake had a depth of 180 and 130 kilo
metres and its epicentre was the Hindu Kush region at Pakistan, Afgh
anistan
and Tajikistan border area.
There were no reports of losses of life and property in the earthquake.
An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 on the Richter Scale earlier jolted Swat an
d adjoining areas on Sunday.
According to the NSMC, the earthquake had a depth of 212 kilo
metres and its epicentre was the Afgh
anistan-Tajikistan border area.
Earlier, a magnitude 3.4 earthquake struck western parts of Balochistan’s Khuzdar district.
The NSMC relayed that the
intensity of the quake was recorded at 3.4 on the Richter Scale. While its epicenter was at 65 kilo
metres west of the city.
On September 26, an earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on Richter Scale had hit the Swat region an
d adjoining areas.
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