A moderate but deeply felt magnitude-5.2 earthquake struck northern Pakistan in the pre-dawn hours of Friday, sending shockwaves through the Hindu Kush mountains and rippling across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, awakening millions in a sudden surge of seismic unrest. The tremor, with its epicenter pinpointed at 36.12°N, 71.51°E and a depth of 135 kilometers, hit at 3:09 a.m. local time, lasting about 25 seconds and registering as a prolonged rumble on seismographs from Peshawar to Kabul.