A moderate intensity earthquake rocked the Kashmir Valley Saturday morning, disaster management officials said. No damage to life or property has been reported so far.
"The magnitude of the earthquake was 4.7 on the Richter Scale. It occured at 5.02 a.m. Saturday morning," Aamir Ali, in-charge of the provincial disaster management cell, told IANS.
"The epicentre of the quake was in the Hindukush mountain range of Afghanistan. The coordinates were 36.4 degrees north and 71.4 degrees east."
(Published 04 February 2012, 05:37 IST)
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