Residents of Karachi felt mild tremors this morning when a mild earthquake hit the city, JEE News reported on Friday.
According to the Meteorological Department, the magnitude of the earthquake was 2.9 on the Richter scale.
The epicenter of the earthquake was 10 km west of Malir at a depth of 30 km, the Seismological Center confirmed.
No loss of life or property has been reported as a result of the earthquake.
The Malir earthquake came a month after powerful 5.8-magnitude tremors hit Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar and other cities.
According to the National Seismic Monitoring Center, Islamabad, the epicenter of the earthquake was near the border of Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
The earthquake was recorded at a depth of 196 km in the Hindu Kush mountain range.
Residents were reported to have rushed out of their homes in panic after the tremors. However, no loss of life or property has been reported so far.
Other cities include Bannu, DI Khan, Swat, Diamar, Chilas, Nowshera, Mansehra, Lower Dir, Upper Dir, Mianwali and Malakand.
Meanwhile, strong tremors were also felt in Delhi and its neighboring areas in India.
JEE News reported at the time that tremors were felt in many parts of northern India, particularly in parts of India’s illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and Punjab.
Natural disasters such as earthquakes are not uncommon in Pakistan, as the country is located on the border of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.
Large parts of South Asia are seismically active as a tectonic plate known as the Indian Plate is thrusting northward into the Eurasian Plate.
