Peshawar, Oct 29 (AP) An earthquake has struck the HinduKush mountain range in Afghanistan and was strongly felt innorthern Pakistan.
The US Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitudeof 5.2, while Pakistan's meteorological department said it wasmagnitude 5.9 with its epicentre in the Afghan mountain range.
The USGS said the quake yesterday had a depth of 101kilometres.
The earthquake was felt from tribal regions along theAfghan border in the north to the eastern city of Lahore andits surrounding areas in Punjab province. There were noimmediate reports of damage.
Northern Pakistan is on earthquake fault line. In 2005 amajor earthquake caused massive damages in northern Pakistanand in the Pakistani part of the disputed Kashmir region,killing more than 70,000 people (AP)AJR.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.