June 27 (Reuters) – A robust earthquake struck Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush area on Saturday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre stated, sending out tremors that could possibly be felt from the capital Kabul throughout the border into neighbouring Pakistan.
Individuals ran out of their doorways in panic in Swat district in northern Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, resident Daniyal Ahmad instructed Reuters. There have been no speedy stories of casualties.
“It was very large right here in Swat and it lasted for fairly a very long time,” he stated.
“Individuals got here out of their homes and ladies and youngsters have been seen crying in panic.”
The magnitude 6 quake was at a depth of 100 km (62 miles), EMSC stated.
An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 struck Pakistan earlier on Saturday, in line with EMSC.
(Reporting by Sayed Hassib in Kabul, Mushtaq Ali in Peshawar and Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Enhancing by Andrew Heavens)
