Pakistan TV anchor continues to present as huge earthquake shakes studio
The video of a Pakistan television anchor continuing to present a news broadcast as a powerful earthquake shook the studio, has gone viral on social media.
On Tuesday night, a 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing at least 13 people and injuring 300.
The 30-second video was shared on social media by Pakistani journalist Iftikhar Firdous.
Pashto TV channel Mahshriq TV anchor could be seen calmly presenting the news as tremors jolted the studio in Peshawar, Pakistan.
A Twitter user shared the video with the caption: “Pashto TV channel Mahshriq TV during the earthquake. Bravo anchor continued his live program in the ongoing earthquake.”
A local Pashto TV channel Mahshriq TV during the earthquake. Brave of the anchor to keep his calm. But shows the impact of the earthquake. #Peshawar #Pakistan pic.twitter.com/7h3FOxBvtF
— Iftikhar Firdous (@IftikharFirdous) March 21, 2023
Television screens and other studio equipment could be seen shaking behind the anchor as he continued with the broadcast.
🛑 #LIVE #EARTHQUAKE #VISUALS: A local #Pakistani Pashto TV channel Mahshriq TV during the earthquake. Whole studio was shaking very badly at that time. The news anchor reported the earthquake live camera.
#Peshawar #Pakistan #PakWeather pic.twitter.com/THvbeZhU1A— PakWeather.com (@Pak_Weather) March 21, 2023
The video has been shared widely on social media, with users applauding the anchor for keeping calm.
#WATCH | Pak anchor continue reading news during earthquake #Peshawar, #Pakistan: A local #pashto TV channel Mahshriq TV during the earthquake. Brave of the anchor to keep his calm. But one can see the impact of the earthquake pic.twitter.com/7Pe4Phr3xE
— Subodh Kumar (@kumarsubodh_) March 22, 2023
“Incredibly brave of him to keep his calm and carry on doing his job,” wrote journalist Natiq Malikzada.
Incredibly brave of him to keep his calm and carry on doing his job 👏
— Natiq Malikzada (@natiqmalikzada) March 21, 2023
“Kept his cool all along, what a pro,” wrote Dawn news journalist Zoheb Ahmed Majeed.
Kept his cool all along, what a pro. Geo anchors let out T-rex roars when Imran Khan shifts his balls left to right.
— Zohaib Ahmed Majeed (@zohaib6891) March 21, 2023
🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
— Noorena Shams (@noorenashams) March 21, 2023
The powerful earthquake was felt across an area more than 1,000km wide.
The earthquake led people to leave their houses, and triggered landslides in some mountainous areas, reported the Associated Press.
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said that tremors were felt in northern India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan.
The epicenter of the quake was in southeast Afghanistan’s Jurm valley.
Huge parts of south Asia are seismically active because a tectonic plate known as the Indian plate is pushing north into the Eurasian plate.
Last year, more than 1,000 people were killed in eastern Afghanistan after a 6.1-magnitude earthquake.