Pakistan, Aug. 5 -- Strong tremors shook Islamabad, Rawalpindi, and multiple other areas shortly after midnight on Saturday as a 5.1-magnitude earthquake hit at 12:10am, the second to hit the region in two days, prompting residents to evacuate their homes. According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department's National Seismic Monitoring Centre (NSMC) in Islamabad, the earthquake struck at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres.

The epicentre was located 15 kilometres southeast of Rawat. Shocks were also reported in Attock, Swabi, and Zafarwal, as well as in northern areas including Swat, Shangla, Buner, Malakand, Mansehra, Battagram, Kohistan, and Murree. Tremors were also felt in Jhelum and several towns across Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

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