Mild earthquake tremors were felt in several areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Kashmir, Punjab, and parts of Afghanistan early this morning.

According to the National Seismic Monitoring Centre, the earthquake measured 5.3 on the Richter scale.

Tremors were reported in the KP areas of Malakand, Swat, Shangla, Chitral, Abbottabad, Mardan, Mohmand, Swabi, Lower Dir, Azad Kashmir, Islamabad and some areas of Punjab.

According to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, an earthquake also struck the Hindu Kush Region in neighbouring Afghanistan.

The EMSC said the tremor had a magnitude of 5.6 and occurred at a depth of 121 kilometres. The Epicenter was located around 164 kilometres East of Baghlan, a city with a population of roughly 108,000.