Magnitude 5.3 trembler jolts Pakistan

The upheaval originated 48km east-northeast of Shughnon, Tajikistan and had a abyss of 133.8km, a USGS said.

Pakistan is located in a Indus-Tsangpo Suture Zone, that is roughly 200 km north of a Himalaya Front and is tangible by an unprotected ophiolite sequence along a southern margin.

This segment has a top rates of seismicity and largest earthquakes in a Himalaya region, caused especially by transformation on bearing faults.

Along a western domain of a Tibetan Plateau, in a closeness of south-eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan, a South Asian image translates obliquely relations to a Eurasia plate, ensuing in a formidable fold-and-thrust belt famous as a Sulaiman Range.

Faulting in this segment includes strike-slip, reverse-slip and oblique-slip suit and mostly formula in shallow, mortal earthquakes.

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