Summary The epicenter was located in a remote area some 345 kilometers east of the capital Dushanbe.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News/AFP) – A moderate earthquake on Monday jolted parts of the country including Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Swat, Nowshera and Gilgit, creating fear among the locals.
There are no immediate reports of any casualties so far but the tremor badly frightened the residents who came out from the houses.
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"I felt the windows moving and that only happens when there s an earthquake. The room was swinging," said Sara Seerat, a lawyer in Islamabad.
Meanwhile, a powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the east of the Central Asian country of Tajikistan,US experts said.
The tremor hit at 7:50 GMT some 109 kilometers (67 miles) west of the town of Murghob at a depth of 28 kilometers, the US Geological Survey said.
The epicenter was located in a remote area some 345 kilometers east of the capital Dushanbe, it added.
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An AFP reporter in Dushanbe said small tremors were felt in the city.
The quake was also felt in the capital of neighbouring Kyrgyzstan to the north, northern parts of Afghanistan to the south as well as nearby India.
Indian television showed residents in Delhi and Srinagar rushing into the streets.
