🔶 A 5.6-magnitude earthquake shakes Pakistan’s Balochistan province

The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam announced that an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale shook the Vaahir region near Khuzdar city in Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Saturday, 25 Mehr (17 October).

The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers underground.

According to the Pakistani media outlet “Ham English,” the Balochistan provincial disaster management authority and local officials said that, based on initial assessments, no casualties or property damage have been reported so far.

The tremor was also felt in several other areas of Pakistan’s Balochistan, and some residents left their homes and shops for fear of them.