{"id":14932,"date":"2023-03-23T13:10:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=14932"},"modified":"2023-03-23T13:10:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:10:21","slug":"4-4-magnitude-earthquake-hits-parts-of-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/4-4-magnitude-earthquake-hits-parts-of-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"4.4 magnitude earthquake hits parts of Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4.4 magnitude earthquake hits parts of Punjab. A 4.4 magnitude earthquake rocked several cities in central eastern region of Pakistan on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the seismological center, the earthquake struck at 4:38pm while its epicenter was 30 km southwest of Sargodha.<\/p>\n<p>Hafizabad, Pindi Bhattian, Faisalabd, Nakana Sahib, Mianwali and Sarghodha are among the cities where tremors were felt. No damages have been reported so far.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, a strong earthquake jolted parts of South Asian countries including Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan late on Tuesday, with ten dead in Pakistan and over 150 injured.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/6-8-magnitude-earthquake-rattles-many-cities-of-pakistan.html\">6.8 magnitude earthquake rattles many cities of Pakistan<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The casualties and injuries were reported mostly in northwest Pakistan, KPK, as the epicenter of the quake was Afghanistan&#8217;s Hindu Kush region, Pakistan Meteorological Department said.<\/p>\n<p>Residents were panicked as strong tremors were felt in major cities, including Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Charsadda, and Rawalpindi. Gujranwala, Sialkot, Chakwal, Kohat, and Gilgit-Baltistan areas, also suffered earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, at least 19 people have been killed and more than 200 injured after a powerful earthquake shook large parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The 6.5-magnitude quake damaged buildings, triggered landslides and sent people running into the streets.<\/p>\n<p>It struck on Tuesday evening, centred in a mountainous region in Afghanistan&#8217;s north-east near the border with Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Tremors from the remote Jurm valley were felt as far away as India.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a terrifying tremor. I had never felt such a tremor before in my life,&#8221; Kabul resident Khatera told AFP news agency after rushing out of her fifth-storey apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Ten of the deaths were reported in Afghanistan. A child was among those killed in Laghman province near the country&#8217;s border with Pakistan, AFP reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4.4 magnitude earthquake hits parts of Punjab. A 4.4 magnitude earthquake rocked several cities in central eastern region of Pakistan on Thursday. According to the seismological center, the earthquake struck at 4:38pm while its epicenter was 30 km southwest of Sargodha. Hafizabad, Pindi Bhattian, Faisalabd, Nakana Sahib, Mianwali and Sarghodha are among the cities where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[8261,138],"class_list":["post-14932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-earthqauke","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}