A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck near Islamabad and Rawalpindi on Saturday afternoon, while tremors were also felt in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from another earlier quake.
The earthquake in Pakistan measured 5.5 on the Richter scale and occurred at 12:30pm, according to the National Seismic Monitoring Centre (NSMC). It further said the quake struck at a depth of 12 kilometres, with its epicentre located 60km northwest of Rawalpindi.
Meanwhile, a separate 4.3-magnitude earthquake also jolted the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border region about 35 minutes earlier, the NSMC said.
It added that the 11:54am quake had an epicentre with a depth of 88km.
Parts of KP — including Shangla, Swat, Mardan, Abottbad, Haripur, Mansehra, and Kohistan — felt the tremors of that quake, according to a Dawn.com correspondent.
There are no immediate reports of any damages in the earthquake.
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