A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck various cities across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday, according to a statement by the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD).<\/p>\n
The PMD said the quake struck at a depth of 230 kilometres, with its epicentre located in the Hindukush region.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo casualties or damages have been reported,\u201d KP Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) spokesperson Anwar Shahzad told Dawn.com.<\/p>\n
Parts of KP \u2014 Mardan, Swat, Swabi and Abbottabad, and their surrounding areas \u2014 felt the tremors of that quake, he added.<\/p>\n
Last month, a 4.4-magnitude earthquake jolted Swat and adjoining areas with a depth of 185 kilometres and epicentre in Hindukush.<\/p>\n
On April 12, a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck near Islamabad and Rawalpindi, while tremors were also felt in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from another earlier quake.<\/p>\n
Pakistan witnessed around 20 low-intensity earthquakes in the first half of February \u2014 an average of more than one tremor each day.<\/p>\n
However, experts had pointed out that such minor seismic activities \u201cpreempt\u201d high-intensity earthquakes by constantly releasing accumulated energy within the tectonic plates.<\/p>\n
Pakistan falls on three major tectonic plates \u2014 the Arabian, Euro-Asian and Indian \u2014 according to geological engineer Muhammad Rehan, creating five seismic zones within the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck various cities across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday, according to a statement by the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD). The PMD said the quake struck at a depth of 230 kilometres, with its epicentre located in the Hindukush region. \u201cNo casualties or damages have been reported,\u201d KP Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) spokesperson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9015,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions\/9015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}