Quake shakes Pak-Iran border
A moderate earthquake jolted an area along Pakistan's border with neighbouring Iran yesterday, but there were no reports of injuries or any damage, an official said.
The magnitude 5.1 quake - at 4:27am (2327 GMT) - was centered somewhere on the Pakistan-Iran border, about 1,200 kilometres (745 miles) west of the northwestern city of Peshawar, said Nasir Mahmood, assistant meteorologist at the state-run Seismological Centre in Peshawar.
Mahmood did not have information on where exactly the tremor was centered in the frontier region.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Earthquakes are commonly felt in Pakistan. On October 8, a magnitude 7.6 quake struck the country's northwest and its portion of the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir, killing more than 80,000 people and leaving more than three million others homeless.
Peshawar is about 150 kilometers (93 miles) northwest of the capital, Islamabad.
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