Pakistan was rocked by two earthquakes within an hour on Saturday afternoon, triggering panic among residents across several cities.
The first tremor, with a magnitude of 4.3 on the Richter scale, struck at 11:54 am. According to seismic data, its epicentre was near the Pak-Afghan-Tajikistan border at a depth of 88 kilometres.
Just 36 minutes later, at 12:30 pm, a second and significantly stronger quake occurred, registering a magnitude of 5.5. The National Seismic Monitoring Centre (NSMC) confirmed that the epicentre of this tremor was located 60 kilometres northwest of Rawalpindi, at a shallow depth of just 12 kilometres.
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