A moderate earthquake jolted parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday evening but no loss was reported.
According to details, tremours of magnitude 4.9 on the Richter scale were felt in Peshawar, Charsadda, Mardan, Lower Dir, Swat, Hangu, Jhang, Pakpattan, Pind Dadan Khan, Skardu, Bagh and other parts of Azad Kashmir.
People of the areas where the earthquake was felt rushed out of their homes in panic but no property loss or causality was reported due to quake.
The epicentre of the earthquake was stated to be at Afghan-Tajikistan border, deep inside earth crust.
Earlier, on Tuesday-Wednesday night 5.9 magnitude earthquake had jolted different parts of the country.
