An earthquake of 4.4 magnitude hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and its adjacent towns on Sunday afternoon, sending tremors throughout the area.
Pakistan falls to three important tectonic plates, Arabic, Euro-Asian and Indian, according to the geological engineer Muhammad Rean, creating five seismic areas within the country.
Today, an earthquake of 4.4 magnitude shook adjacent areas and areas with a depth of 185 kilometers and epicenter in Hindukush, a private news channel reported, citing the National Seismic Monitoring Center.
People left their homes in panic and began to recite verses of the Sacred Koran.
There was no loss of lives or properties of any part of Swat, according to the report.
On April 19, they felt tremors in parts of KP and Punjab, including Peshawar, Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Lahore, for the second time in as many weeks as an earthquake of magnitude of 5.9 beaten near the border region of Afghanistan-Tajikistan.
Pakistan witnessed around 20 earthquakes of low intensity in the first half of February, an average of more than one tremor every day.
However, experts have pointed out that such minor seismic activities “are ahead of the high intensity earthquakes by constantly releasing accumulated energy within tectonic plates.
In the Himalayas region, the great seismic activity takes place in a cycle of approximately 100 years, experts said.
The latest important seismic events in the region were the earthquakes of 2005 and 2015.
