6.2 magnitude earthquake felt in Islamabad, nearby cities
The tremors were felt for 35 seconds around 7:01pm. The epicentre is reported to be in the Hindu Kush region.
The United States Geological Survey, which records earthquakes all over the world reported that an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 struck with its epicentre 121 kilometres north west of Chitral.
The department recorded a second earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale roughly an hour later with its epicentre eight km south east of the first earthquake.
The earthquake was felt in the capital Islamabad, Lahore, Faisalabad, Peshawar, Abbottabad, Sargodha, Chitral and Haripur.
Panic gripped the affected areas with people seen rushing for safety and reciting verses from the Holy Quran.
Express News reported that people in Islamabad were feeling aftershocks at regular intervals. The intensity of one of the aftershocks was reported at 5.1 on the Richter scale.
NDTV reported that the earthquake had been felt as far as India.
Earlier on Wednesday, the USGS reported that there had been two more earthquakes minutes apart with magnitudes of 4.2 and with epicentres 70 km and 55 km north of Khaplu in the Himalaya region of Pakistan.
A 7.6-magnitude earthquake in Pakistan in October 2005 killed 74,000 people and displaced 3.5 million.
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When the government (Punjab, Pakistan) will order to Destroy the Bait-ul-Humd Mosque’s Dome (in Kharyan, Gujrat) and remove the banner with the Kalma (“There is none worthy of worship except God, Muhammad is the Messenger of God”) on it, obviously something like this will happen. It is a warning from ALLAH to the whole nation, because nobody said a single word against this act ! Even the media was silent!
God is running out of patience.That's all about it.
Oh I didn't notice it. Most probably I was running at that time:)
didn't feel anything at all, in Islamabad
Didnt feel anything at all
@Not me - I have yet to hear of any "bad ruler" dying due to an earthquake in Pakistan!
It did not feel like 6.2 in Islamabad. And I hardly felt it for 10 seconds...
Why does everyone interpret earthquakes as as sign that we have bad policitans and they must go? Perhaps its because we don't pay our taxes? Or Zakat? Or perhaps its because we allow know terrorists and terrorist sympathisers run amok in the country?
Yes, I am in Fiasalabad and I also felt a severe earthquake.
Magnitude is 5.8 data & time Thursday, July 12, 2012 at 14:00:33 UTC depth is 190.2km location 36.502°N, 70.875°E hindukush region Afghanistan
this is what USGC says.
Yes it was one of the most shocking incidence, i felt it very much and rushed to open air, in Dera Ismail Khan KPK
Mega Floods in 2010.Then another Huge floods in 2011 Now this pretty large earthquake These are warnings against zulm of bad rulers. Rulers please Head to these warnings and please go......
WoNDER how many times more we will be WARNED.....Pathetic ignorants..:(
BTW, it was 5.8 not 6.2 as quoted by ET......see following link
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usb000b40i.php
felt in islamabad.. noone got panickeddd
what is your source for 6.2, just randomly
I also felt it in Sialkot, that was again horrible