{"id":17938,"date":"2025-08-31T21:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T21:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17938"},"modified":"2025-08-31T21:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T21:04:14","slug":"6-0-magnitude-earthquake-jolts-islamabad-peshawar-and-other-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17938","title":{"rendered":"6.0-magnitude earthquake jolts Islamabad, Peshawar and other cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A powerful earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Murree and several districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) &#8211; including Peshawar, Mansehra and Abbottabad &#8211; in the early hours of Monday, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD).<\/p>\n<p>The PMD reported that the Seismic Network of Pakistan Meteorological Department recorded the 6.0 magnitude earthquake at 12:08 on September 01, with its epicentre located in southern Afghanistan at a latitude of 34.82\u00b0N and longitude of 70.74\u00b0E.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the tremors, residents in the affected areas rushed out of their homes in panic. No casualties or property damage have been reported so far.<\/p>\n<p>The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) confirmed that several K-P districts also experienced tremors, which were recorded at 5.4 magnitude locally. The authority said it has alerted district administrations to remain prepared for any unforeseen situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe process is underway to collect information regarding any losses; however, no reports of human or material damage have been received yet,\u201d PDMA officials said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Murree and several districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) &#8211; including Peshawar, Mansehra and Abbottabad &#8211; in the early hours of Monday, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD). The PMD reported that the Seismic Network of Pakistan Meteorological Department recorded the 6.0 magnitude earthquake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}