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No victims registered as a 5.3 -Magnode -Bieben -Sieg KP -Pakistan

An earthquake of 5.3 magnites met on Saturday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in various cities, as can be seen from a explanation of the Pakistani meteorological department (PMD).

The PMD said that the quake was beaten at a depth of 230 kilometers with its epicenter in the Hindukush region.

“No victims or damage were reported” Dawn.com.

Parts of KP – Mardan, Swat, Swabi and Abbottabad and their surroundings – felt the trembling of this quake, he added.

Last month, an earthquake of 4.4 magnites swat and adjacent areas with a depth of 185 kilometers and epicenter in Hindukush.

On April 12, an earthquake of 5.5 met near Islamabad and Rawalpindi, while trembling from another former quake was also felt in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

In the first half of February, Pakistan observed around 20 earthquakes with a low intensity-average of more than one tremor per day.

However, experts had pointed out that such minor seismic activities had high -intensity earthquakes due to the constant release of accumulated energy within the tectonic plates.

According to Geological Engineer Muhammad Rehan, Pakistan falls on three large tectonic plates Arabs, Euro-Asian and Indian and Indian and Indian zones within the country.

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