A 6.0-magnitude earthquake shook Punjab, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday. All three of these areas felt the effects of the earthquake.
A magnitude-6 natural quake shook numerous areas of the nation, including the cities of Lahore, Peshawar, and Islamabad.
The earthquakes’ magnitude had an impact on a sizable number of regions in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), the epicenter of the earthquake was 213 kilometers deep and was situated in Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush region.
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Other cities that felt the aftereffects of the shocks were Sargodha in Punjab, Khushab and the adjacent districts, Mandi Bahauddin, Bhakkar, and Nowshera.
Among the KP cities hit by the earthquake were Peshawar, Kohat, Shabqadar, Abbottabad, Lower Dir, Mianwali, Mansehra, Battagram, Kohistan, Deerbala, Dera Ismail Khan, Hangu, Diamir, Parachinar, and Bannu. In the AJK valleys, the earthquake also had an impact on Neelum and Muzaffarabad.
I was at work when the earthquake happened,” she remarked. According to forty-year-old Lahori Saeed Ur Rehman, “We had to leave the building quickly.” This is what Media.tv concluded.
Pakistan is prone to frequent earthquakes due to its close proximity to the region where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates intersect.
Because the Indian plate is tectonically straining the Eurasian plate from the north, seismic activity is felt across most of South Asia. Indian plate influence is coming from this.
Delhi, Kabul, and other adjacent cities were also reported to have experienced strong tremors. According to the US Geological Survey, the magnitude 6.4 Ritcher earthquake in Afghanistan was still detectable at a depth of 206.6 km, 44 km SSW of Jurm, at 2:50 PM on January 11.
Planning for and mitigating disasters has become more crucial after a spate of earthquakes.
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