ISLAMABAD, April 4 (Xinhua) -- A 5.2-magnitude earthquakes jolted Islamabad and northern parts of Pakistan on Tuesday, injuring 12 people, officials said.

    "It was moderate intensity of quake," said the chief of the Seismological Department Chaudhry Qamar-uz-Zaman.

    He said it was an aftershock of the massive October 8 quake that killed more than 73,000 people in the country.

    Twelve people were injured when walls of their mud-brick home collapsed in Battagram, about 150 km north of Islamabad, he said.

    The earthquake was felt at 2:12 p.m. (0912 GMT) in Islamabad, Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Peshawar and in Balakot and also in Mansehra and Swat districts, he said.

    The epicenter was 200 km northeast of Peshawar in Hazra division.

    Another aftershock measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale was felt at 2:16 p.m. (0916 GMT).

    Chaudhry said that some 1,842 aftershocks had been recorded in Pakistan since last October 7.6-magnitude earthquake that displaced 3.5 million people in northern Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.

    Seismological officials said occasional aftershocks would continue for a couple of months. Enditem