Tremors were felt across the National Capital Region and in several parts of north India on Friday evening after an earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck Afghanistan, NDTV reported.
The epicentre of the earthquake was near Darawan at 71.01 degrees E and 36.52 degrees N. Tremors were also felt in Jammu and Kashmir and Kargil, it added.
The tremors, which lasted a few seconds, occurred at 9:46 pm.
"I felt a strong jolt which lasted for a few seconds," news agency Press Trust of India quoted Baldev Chand, a Chandigarh resident who lives in a flat on the second floor, as saying.
Ajay Kumar, who lives on the 11th floor of a residential society in Zirakpur, Punjab, said: "The tremors lasted for a few seconds. We thought of rushing down but the tremors stopped soon."
Tremors were also felt in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Islamabad, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and parts of Punjab.
The Pakistan Meteorological Department's National Seismic Monitoring Centre (NSMC) said that the quake was recorded at 9:13 p.m., with a depth of 190 kilometres. Pakistan lies in a quake-prone zone due to its location along the boundary of the Arabian Sea, Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck the country on Feb 20, while a 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit its Balochistan province on Feb 13. The quake was preceded on the same day by another tremor of magnitude 3.8. The worst quake the country suffered was in 2005, which killed about 74,000 people.
(With PTI inputs)
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