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Severe quake hit upper parts of country
ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON: A severe earthquake, measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, rocked upper parts of the country including federal capital, Geo News reported.
According to the sources, the quake jolted cities including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Mansehra, Abbotabad, Charsadda.
The epicenter of the quake was Tajikistan.
The US Geological Survey reported that a strong 6.1 earthquake hit a mountainous area of eastern Tajikistan early Monday.
The epicenter of the tremor, which occurred at 7:45 am local time (0245 GMT), was located 106 kilometers (66 miles) southwest of the city of Karakul, near the country's border with China, it said.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
The reading was based on the open-ended Moment Magnitude scale, now used by US seismologists, which measures the area of the fault that ruptured and the total energy released.
Courtesy www.geo.tv