{"id":65580,"date":"2025-02-15T23:12:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T18:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=65580"},"modified":"2025-02-15T23:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T18:37:15","slug":"4-8-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-islamabad-rawalpindi-surrounding-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/4-8-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-islamabad-rawalpindi-surrounding-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"4.8 magnitude earthquake shakes Islamabad, Rawalpindi &#038; surrounding areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Tremors were felt in Islamabad and Rawalpindi on Saturday as people rushed out of their homes.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Meteorological Department said the quake had a magnitude of 4.8 and struck at 10:48 pm.<\/p>\n<p>The epicentre of the quake was 8 km southeast of Rawalpindi and its depth was 17 km.<\/p>\n<p>The twin cities were gripped by panic and the tremors lasted for several seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad has a population of 2.4 million, according to the 2023 census. It added that the country&#8217;s population has crossed 240 million and the growth rate is 2.55%.<\/p>\n<p>In January, a 6.8-magnitude <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/mild-earthquake-hits-quetta-no-casualties-reported\/\">earthquake<\/a> struck southwestern Japan, triggering two small tsunamis in the area but causing no damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Tremors were felt in Islamabad and Rawalpindi on Saturday as people rushed out of their homes. The Pakistan Meteorological Department said the quake had a magnitude of 4.8 and struck at 10:48 pm. The epicentre of the quake was 8 km southeast of Rawalpindi and its depth was 17 km. The twin cities were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14809,2],"tags":[4918],"class_list":["post-65580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-pakistan","tag-earthquake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65580","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=65580"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65598,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65580\/revisions\/65598"}],"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=65580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}