ISLAMABAD: A 5.4-magnitude earthquake rolled through cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, catching residents off guard in homes, offices, and markets from Peshawar to Multan.
The seismic monitoring centre confirmed that the epicentre sat inside Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush mountain range, with the quake hitting 215 kilometres below the surface deep enough to travel far without tearing anything apart at ground level, but shallow enough in feel for anyone standing in a tall building to notice the floor moving under their feet.
Punjab, KP Feel Tremors
Peshawar was affected the most intensely in terms of tremors by any city in KP. Likewise, Swat, Bajaur, Buner, Hangu, Shangla, Kohat, Mohmand, and Shabqadar were hit hard with some residents coming out on streets in fear of worsening circumstances. Further moving eastward, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, DI Khan, and Multan also faced an earthquake but this time, the intensity was lower.
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No Damage Reported
Sources told Focus Pakistan that there were no reports of fatalities or any kind of destruction reported from any area in the following hours.
The 215 kilometres depth is the number which defines everything about Monday’s earthquake. Hindu Kush earthquakes come into another league of their own as the impact of collision between Indian and Eurasian plates is so strong that the rocks go down in depth to such an extent that when the rock finally breaks, it causes ripples like movement in all directions and not directly up in one direction. This was the reason why a person in Multan felt the tremors at the same time as the shaking window in Bajaur. It is also why the damage stays limited the energy disperses before it concentrates enough to bring anything down.
Disaster management teams in both KP and Punjab activated post-quake monitoring protocols as a standard precaution, with district administrations in the northern districts asked to file damage assessments within six hours of the tremor.
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