Earthquake tremors were felt in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s area of Swat and its surroundings on Saturday. According to the National Seismic Monitoring Centre, the intensity of the quake was recorded at 5.2 on the Richter scale. After the earthquake in Mingora and its adjoining areas, people got scared and came out of their houses. According to the seismological centre, the depth of the earthquake was 207 kilometers, while the epicenter was the border region of Pakistan i.e. Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It should be noted that earthquake shocks were felt in the Mingora area of Swat and its surroundings in the past days with a magnitude of 4.3 and the center was the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)