PMD director seismology rules out that that it was an aftershock of last week's 7.5-magnitude earthquake. PHOTO: AFP
“The epicenter of the earthquake was the Suleman Range,” PMD Director Seismology Zahid Rafi said, while speaking to The Express Tribune.
"It was not an aftershock, it was an earthquake," Rafi added.
Massive quake hits Pakistan
Further, the PMD’s seismic monitoring centre stated that the depth of the earthquake was 10km. However, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) put the magnitude of the earthquake at 4.9 and depth at 40km.
According to the residents of Dera Ismail Khan’s frontier region, the Chashma road developed cracks as a result of the earthquake.
Meanwhile jolts were felt as far as South Waziristan, Tank and other parts of the province but the intensity was mostly concentrated in the southern districts of K-P.
Reporter on ground: Peshawar’s strongest earthquake was like hell
A total of 81 aftershocks have been recorded a week after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake caused widespread destruction to life and property across the province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).
On October 26, a major earthquake centred in the Hindu Kush – the 800km mountain range that stretches between central Afghanistan and northern Pakistan – killed more than 200 people in the two countries and injured hundreds of others, sending shockwaves as far as New Delhi.
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