A
major earthquake
occurred at 03:50:40
(UTC) on Saturday,
October 8, 2005.
The magnitude 7.6
event located in
PAKISTAN. (This
event has been reviewed
by a seismologist.)
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DATE & TIME |
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Saturday, October
8, 2005 at 03:50:40
(UTC) = Coordinated
Universal Time Saturday,
October 8, 2005
at 8:50:40 AM =
local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake
in other Time Zones
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DISTANCES IN PAKISTAN REGION |
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105 km (65 miles)
NNE of ISLAMABAD,
Pakistan
115 km (70 miles)
ESE of Mingaora,
Pakistan
125 km (75 miles)
WNW of Srinagar,
Kashmir
165 km (105 miles)
SSW of Gilgit, Kashmir
The
epicenter struck
close to the dividing
line between India
& Pakistan administered
zones of the Himalayan
region of Kashmir,
but the quake was
felt hundreds of
kilometers in Afghanistan’s
Kunduz mountains.
The first earthquake
was followed by
22 aftershocks of
magnitudes of between
4.6 to 6.3 on the
Richter scale over
the next 10 hours.
More than 79,000
people killed, 65,308
injured and extensive
damage in northern
Pakistan. The heaviest
damage occurred
in the Muzaffarabad
area, Kashmir where
entire villages
were destroyed and
at Uri where 80
percent of the town
was destroyed. At
least 32,335 buildings
collapsed in Anantnag,
Baramula, Jammu
and Srinagar, Kashmir.
Buildings collapsed
in Abbottabad, Gujranwala,
Gujrat, Islamabad,
Lahore and Rawalpindi,
Pakistan. Maximum
intensity VIII.
Felt (VII) at Topi;
(VI) at Islamabad,
Peshawar and Rawalpindi;
(V) at Faisalabad
and Lahore. Felt
also at Chakwal,
Jhang, Sargodha
and as far as Quetta.
At least 1,360 people
killed and 6,266
injured in India.
Felt (V) at Chandigarh
and New Delhi; (IV)
at Delhi and Gurgaon,
India.The earthquake,
one of the strongest
to rock the region
in decades, triggered landslides &
buried people in
the rubble of ruined
buildings.
Scores of school
children were killed
when their schools
collapsed, and 200
Pakistani soldiers
were dead. In Pakistan’s
North West Frontier,37,958
people died and
at least 23,172
were injured, majority
of them in Mansehra
district. "The
earthquake, with
a magnitude of 7.6,
wiped out several
whole Pakistani
villages, flattening
houses on Saturday."
"Village
after village had
been wiped out,"
in Muzaffarabad,
the main town in
Pakistan administered
Kashmir. "The
Neelum River had
been blocked because
whole villages have
fallen in water."
"The
death toll went
in several thousands
in Kashmir alone,"
The loss of life
as well as the property
was colossal &
tremendous help
needed. |
