PESHAWAR : A hight intensity earthquake jolted various districts of KhyberPakhtunkhwa (KPK) on Saturday morning but no loss was reported fromanywhere.

According to geological wing of PMD, tremours measuring 5.2 on Richterscale were felt in Peshawar, Upper Dir, Nowshera, Swat, Mingora, Hangu,Orakzai Agency, Swabi, Chatta Plain, Mansehra and surroundings.

People of the areas where the tremours were felt rushed out of their homesin panic reciting verses from Holy Quran and ‘Kalma-e-Tayyeba’.

However, no causality or property loss was reported from any of the areaswhere quake was felt.

The epicenter of the quake was stated to be bordering area of Afghanistanand Tajikistan, 230 kilometer deep inside earth crust.