Earthquake tremors felt in Punjab and K-P

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Updated at 1500 PST Monday, March 21, 2011



ISLAMABAD: An earthquake this afternoon at 2.55pm jolted widespread areas of Punjab and upper areas of the country including Lahore, Islamabad, Sargodha, Mandi Bahauddin, Khyber Agency, Peshawar, Mohmand Agency, Swat, Kohat, Nausehra, Chitral, Mansehra, Bat Gram, Kohistan etc.

Met Department said that the jolts measured 5.6 on the Ratchet scale, while the epicentre of the quake could not be ascertained immediately.
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Re: Punjab, most of upper areas jolted

Earthquake tremors felt in Punjab and K-P
Published: March 21, 2011

The earthquake measured 5.7 on the Richter scale. PHOTO: FILE
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 on the Richter scale was felt in parts of Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Monday.
On March 11, an earthquake of 4.8 jolted northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan but there were no reports of casualties.
Pakistan was hit by a 7.6-magnitude earthquake on October 8, 2005 that killed more than 73,000 people and left about 3.5 million homeless, mainly in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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