Pakistan rocked by another earthquake, tremors measuring 4.2 hit Faisalabad division

Pakistan earthquake today: Pakistan was rocked by an earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter Scale on Tuesday, the National Center for Seismology confirmed.

As per the NCS, the earthquake struck at a depth of 111 kilometres below the earth's surface at 7.20 PM (Indian Standard Time).

The coordinates — Latitude 31.31 North, and Longitude 72.52 East — points at Jhang tehsil in Faisalabad division in Pakistan's Punjab state as the epicentre of the tremor.

Pakistan has been hit by a succession of earthquakes in the recent past, prompting observers to suspect that the country may be conducting clandestine nuclear tests. The country was rocked by a 4.6 magnitude earthquake on 12 May. Prior to this, Pakistan was jolted by two back-to-back earthquakes on May 10 – one 4.7 magnitude earthquake in the morning, followed by a 4.0 magnitude quake later on in the same day.