On Wednesday night, Kalat, the capital of the Kalat District in Balochistan, was rocked by an earthquake measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale.
People panicked and began chanting passages from the Holy Quran outside their homes. The earthquake caused no damage to people or property in any section of Awaran.
The epicentre of the earthquake was situated near Kalat at a depth of 20 kilometres, according to the National Seismic Monitoring Centre in Islamabad.