Summary No human or property loss was reported in the quake-hit areas.
PESHAWAR (Web Desk / AFP) - An earthquake of 5.8 magnitude jolted Peshawar, Swat, Nowshera, Upper Dir, Mardan and surrounding areas on Saturday, Dunya News reported.
The tremor was also felt in Lahore, Sargodha, Chiniot and southern areas of Punjab.
The epicentre of the quake was in the Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan, close to the Pakistani and Tajik borders.
Details provided by National Seismic Monitoring Centre, Karachi.
People came out of their homes and offices in panic and started reciting verses from the Holy Quran.
However, no human or property loss was reported in the quake-hit areas.
Pakistan is among the most earthquake-prone regions of the world with high vulnerability to earthquakes.
Earlier on December 25 last year, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake centred in the Hindu Kush jolted Afghanistan and Pakistan, damaging homes and leaving dozens of people injured just two months after a killer quake rattled the same mountainous region.
A pregnant woman was killed when a boulder fell on her house in Peshawar and up to 50 others were left injured in the northwestern Pakistani city.
Initial information suggested at least 45 houses were damaged in Badakhshan where communication with remote, mountainous villages is typically slow, and 12 people were injured in the Afghan province of Nangarhar.
In October last year, a 7.5-magnitude quake in the same region ripped across Pakistan and Afghanistan, killing nearly 400 people and flattening buildings in rugged terrain.
For many in Pakistan, October‘s quake brought back traumatic memories of a 7.6-magnitude quake that struck in October 2005, killing more than 75,000 people and displacing some 3.5 million.
Afghanistan is frequently hit by earthquakes, especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range, which lies near the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.
In Nepal a quake in April and a strong aftershock in May killed more than 8,900 people.
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