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5.2 magnitude Earthquake hits Indo-Pak border
Updated : Oct 1, 2016
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 on Richter scale hits Indo-Pak border in Jammu and Kashmir, but no loss to life or property has been reported so far. The quake shook capital Islamabad, parts of Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province in the northwest and some northern area of Punjab, Peshawar, Gilgit, Chilas. According to initial reports, quake was reported 117 km east of the Swat Valley city of Mingaora, at a depth of 43.4 km, the US Geological Survey said. Pakistan regularly faces tremors but most of them are not lethal. However in 2005 a massive quake had killed more than 80,000 people. Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) KP said from Peshawar that the intensity of the tremor was 5.5 and its epicenter was the Hindu Kush mountains.