MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - An aftershock jolted parts of Pakistan on Thursday, panicking hungry, homeless survivors of last weekend's devastating earthquake and forcing rescuers to suspend efforts to save a trapped woman, who died overnight.
The 5.6-magnitude aftershock was centered 85 miles north of Islamabad, near the epicenter of Saturday's 7.6-magnitude quake that demolished whole towns, mostly in the Himalayan region of Kashmir.
There have been dozens of aftershocks since the main quake, including a 6.2-magnitude temblor.
"They will go on for months, possibly years," said Don Blakeman, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center.
