North India jolted as quake hits Afghanistan

A relatively powerful quake jolted Afghanistan including capital Kabul earlier tonight with Richter scale recorded at 5.9 magnitude. Reports suggested that Chitral valley was again strongly hit by natural disaster. The surface expression of the plate boundary is marked by the foothills of the north-south trending Sulaiman Range in the west, the Indo-Burmese Arc in the east and the east-west trending Himalaya Front in the north of India.

The tremors were felt at around 11:17 pm.

The epicentre of the quake was 86 kilometres deep and located somewhere in the border area of Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Geo news reported.

So far no loss to life or property was reported. Pakistan too felt the aftershocks in Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar and Kabul.

The US Geological Survey said that a 5.

On October 26 this year, an quake of 8.1 magnitude struck parts of Pakistan, killing at least 280 people, wounding over 1,900 others and damaging 100,552 houses and 1,426 schools.

The epicentre is at a distance of 284 km north of Peshawar, Pakistan.

This region has the highest rates of seismicity and largest earthquakes in the Himalaya region, caused mainly by movement on thrust faults.