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Another quake jolts Pakistan
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by hussain | January 4, 2009 at 03:58 pm
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An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale shook various parts of Pakistan early Monday (just 30 minutes ago), awakening people who ran out of houses in panic.
There were no immediate reports of damage in the quake which hit at 4.20 a.m. local time. According to preliminary reports, the cities of Islamabad, Swat, Chitral, Gilgit, Buner, Peshawar, Abbotabad, Kohat, Lahore, Faisalabad and Gujranwala as well as Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir were jolted.
According to the Metereological Department, the epicentre of the earthquake was in Hidukash Range..
As the writer was trying to sleep for the past couple of hours and the quake shattered my effort to go to sleep, I thought it necessary to inform the NP readers about the happening..
Earlier, a tremor measuring 5.9 had struck parts of Pakistan in the wee hours of Sunday, leaving five people injured in different parts of the North West Frontier Province while one woman had reportedly died of heart failure because of the earthquake.
There were no immediate reports of damage in the quake which hit at 4.20 a.m. local time. According to preliminary reports, the cities of Islamabad, Swat, Chitral, Gilgit, Buner, Peshawar, Abbotabad, Kohat, Lahore, Faisalabad and Gujranwala as well as Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir were jolted.
According to the Metereological Department, the epicentre of the earthquake was in Hidukash Range..
As the writer was trying to sleep for the past couple of hours and the quake shattered my effort to go to sleep, I thought it necessary to inform the NP readers about the happening..
Earlier, a tremor measuring 5.9 had struck parts of Pakistan in the wee hours of Sunday, leaving five people injured in different parts of the North West Frontier Province while one woman had reportedly died of heart failure because of the earthquake.
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at 16:07 on January 4th, 2009
Those are the worth, in the middle of winter and hard to access area. However what was the intensity of that earth quake? 5.7 can be okay if the intensity is low, yet 4.5 can be devastating if the intensity is high.
at 16:12 on January 4th, 2009
It was really terrible. For a moment, I thought the earth is going upside down. However, only one jolt was in fact of high intensity.
at 16:23 on January 4th, 2009
Source: earthquake.usgs.gov
at 18:49 on January 4th, 2009
Good luck to you and your loved ones.
at 21:03 on January 4th, 2009
Thats really sad,few days back also quake jolted pakistan.
at 22:32 on January 4th, 2009
Thank you for letting us know about this - thank goodness everything seems ok at this point!