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There was an earthquake, variously reported as 7.5, 7.6 and 7.8 in Kashmir near Islamabad in Pakistan. It was felt in Afghanistan and India. Some villages were destroyed and big buildings collapsed. Hundreds are known to be dead and it could be thousands.

"This was the strongest earthquake in the area during the last hundred years," Qamar Uz Zaman, director-general of the Pakistani Meteorological Department, told CNN.
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yeah it is terrible, 2,000 people probably dead...

I think those muslims might blame us, thinking
we probably send a missile and cause earthquake
just like they blame us on India tragic tsunami.
 
Miss*Pinocchio said:
yeah it is terrible, 2,000 people probably dead...

I think those muslims might blame us, thinking
we probably send a missile and cause earthquake
just like they blame us on India tragic tsunami.
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uh...why are they blaming us when it's actually nature doing it?
 
big earthquakes are nothing new in Middle East and East Asia, they get earthquakes like that time to time.
 
I saw that on tv news and it looked so terribble that what happened in Middle East in East Aisa.
 
sequoias said:
big earthquakes are nothing new in Middle East and East Asia, they get earthquakes like that time to time.
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yeah Memphis, Los Angeles, Shandong China 27N31, Lisbon Portugal 38N43,
New Madrid Missouri 36N35, Charleston SC 32N47, San Francisco 37N47,
Tokyo Japan 35N42 mostly get Earthquake because those place live
near the fault... especially northern Pakistan.

Even Alaska can get Earthquake, maybe minor one, I don't know.
 
Miss*Pinocchio said:
Even Alaska can get Earthquake, maybe minor one, I don't know.
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The biggest earthquake ever recorded in the US was a 9.2 one in Alaska on 27 March 1964. It made a tsunami that damaged and destroyed homes on Vancouver island and killed people in California and damaged boats in Los Angles. The earthquake was powerful enough to sink fishing boats in Louisiana and shake up well water in South Africa. Page on this quake
The biggest earthquake ever recorded was a 9.5 one in Chile on 22 May 1960. It also made a tsunami that hit South America and Hawaii, 10,000 miles from epicenter. Page on this quake
 
RedFox said:
The biggest earthquake ever recorded in the US was a 9.2 one in Alaska on 27 March 1964. It made a tsunami that damaged and destroyed homes on Vancouver island and killed people in California and damaged boats in Los Angles. The earthquake was powerful enough to sink fishing boats in Louisiana and shake up well water in South Africa. Page on this quake
The biggest earthquake ever recorded was a 9.5 one in Chile on 22 May 1960. It also made a tsunami that hit South America and Hawaii, 10,000 miles from epicenter. Page on this quake
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:shock: now i wonder what happens if its 15.0 mag
 
A lot of earthquakes happen along plate boundaries as shown on this map. You can see some near hot spots like Hawaii. There are also some earthquakes in the middle of plates like in the eastern US. This page about earthquakes in the northeast says that:

"Perhaps the most successful attempt to explain the occurrence of intraplate earthquakes on a global scale was a study by Arch C. Johnston of the University of Memphis. Johnston's research suggests that "on a global scale, Mesozoic rifts and continental margins are of premier importance as crustal features that together account for nearly three-fourths of all [stable continental interior] seismicity."
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Those rifts are from when Pangaea broke up, starting around 200 million years ago. One time, my mom and sister felt one of those earthquakes with the epicenter in the Adirondacks. I was in bed and it didn't wake me up. Then I read that an earthquake like that happens there about once every twenty years. Some people's houses closer to the epicenter got their foundations damaged.
 
yeah.... I hope they don't rebuild in that same area.

But I don't know, Earthquake and other storms can happen anywhere.
 
I think people need to prepare for the worst...

Just like us Americans, we need to be prepare
in case something happen.....

We need flashlight, important paper, can of goods,
can opener, first aid kit, plenty of water, money, and
stuff.... and store those things in attic or basement
or upstairs... somewhere safe, instead of relying on slow
government...
because one day... the government will have nothing...
and they might ran out of money and assistance
because they are trying to help Katrina victims, Eastern states flooding,
Florida folks, wildfire California folks, Mexico hurricane and mudslide victims,
Tsunami folks, bomb in Bali, and now quake in Pakistan, ugh....
What else will happen this year???
 
I found an animation of how earthquakes happen. BBC There are also animations for tsunamis and hurricanes. The earthquake animation shows four types of plate boundaries, an oceanic plate going under a continential one, two continential ones coming together, two plates moving apart and two plates slidinng against each other. It's the second kind that the Kashmir earthquake was at. It's where the Indian plate is moving up into the Eurasian plate. This collision started about 70 million years ago and began pushing up the Himalaya by 50 million years ago. The Tibet plateau is also being pushed up. It's ongoing and earthquakes still happen. The Indian plate is moving at about 2 cm a year and the mountains are being pushed up at about 5 mm a year.

The earthqake
Himalaya
Geology of the Himalaya

Earthquakes like this are big things for people because there's not that many big earthquakes over the human lifetimes and they're so powerful compared to what each person could do. They're little things to the Earth because the Earth is so big and had countless earthquakes over geological time.
 
Bullym0m said:
My mother in law told me 30k died..*updated* within 2 hours ago.
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yeah now 40,000 people killed :eek2:

Pakistan Quake Death Toll Nears 40,000 By TINI TRAN, Associated Press Writer
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BALAKOT, Pakistan - The death toll from Pakistan's earthquake rose sharply to nearly 40,000 on Saturday, with the president warning the numbers could jump still higher as relief teams reach more villages in the endless folds of the Himalayan mountains.

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One relief helicopter crashed late Saturday in stormy weather near Bagh, killing all six people aboard, a senior army official said Sunday. Throughout the region, homeless survivors searched desperately for blankets and tents to brace against temperatures that dropped to 44 degrees and the torrential rains.

The suddenly cold weather in some hard-hit areas was an ominous sign that winter was fast approaching — with thousands of villagers still cut off from any aid whatsoever a week after the magnitude 7.6 quake hit the region.

The heavy rain began early Saturday and continued past daybreak Sunday in many stricken towns and snow fell in the surrounding mountains, disrupting efforts to help an estimated 2 million people still lacking shelter. Only 18,000 tents have been distributed so far to house them, Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Saturday.

With temperatures dropping amid rainy weather that continued past sunrise on Sunday, the hard-hit town of Bagh became a rain-soaked nightmare for victims streaming in from nearby villages seeking help from aid groups.

The transport helicopter that crashed near the area was returning home after dropping off relief workers and all those killed were military personnel, the official said on condition of anonymity becuse he was not permitted to speak with reporters. The cause was not immediately known.

On Saturday, similar problems were found in Balakot, where 25-year-old Mohammed Qassim took shelter from the rain under the corrugated roof of a collapsed building.

He was searching desperately for a tent to keep his five children, as well as the families of his two brothers, reasonably warm.

"For the sake of God, please give me one tent so that three families can live" he recalled telling aid groups, most of which appear to have run completely out of tents. "They said no." He's hoping to at least get plastic sheets.

"We distributed 1,000 tents yesterday but we have run out," said Farhi Butt, who partly owns a telecommunication company that had rushed aid to Balakot.

He had resorted to cutting up plastic signs and distributing them in sheets.

"They're waterproof," he said. "It's not what they're made for, but it will help the people survive for right now."

Helicopter relief flights — which have been ferrying supplies into the quake zone and ferrying out the injured — were halted for about 90 minutes Saturday morning before resuming, except to Balakot where the weather was particularly bad. That left hundreds of injured, cold and terrified people waiting by the helipad, hoping for the weather to clear.

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said the grim numbers — estimated by the military at 38,000 dead and 62,000 injured in Pakistan alone — were likely to get worse in the coming days as rescue teams reach more villages.

The official toll in Pakistan, which previously stood at 25,000, rose sharply because more bodies have been pulled from the rubble in recent days, army officials said.

"I think it will keep rising when we go into the valleys," the president said at a news conference in Rawalpindi, near the capital.

"There are rescue operations going on, but after eight days it's going to be a miracle" to save anyone else, he said. "From a medical point of view we don't want epidemics to spread, and that's why we are continuing (clearing bodies)."

A 13-member team of doctors from the United States was to fly to the affected area from Lahore on Sunday, state news agency APP reported. The team, including Pakistani doctors practicing in the United States, was bringing tents, medicine and hospital equipment.

On Saturday, the prime minister made it clear that shelter was now the priority.

"We need tents, tents, tents and prefab housing," Aziz told reporters.

Officials say 200,000 houses were destroyed by the quake. Aziz also said officials were planning an international donors' conference to be held within the next week in Geneva.

He estimated that rebuilding Pakistan would cost "close to $5 billion."

Pakistan's Interior Ministry on Saturday ordered that visas be granted free-of-charge to all relief workers and doctors coming to help for the next three months. Already 2,873 emergency personnel from 61 countries have flooded in, the ministry said.

While U.N. officials have estimated the reconstruction would take 10 years, "we think it would be faster," it said.

The U.N.'s World Food Program said Saturday it had flown in 35 tons of high-energy bars, donated by Norway, to be distributed in the affected areas. The rations contain enough nutrients for one week for more than 75,000 people, and more flights were planned for next week, the agency said.

At 8:51 a.m. — exactly a week after the quake — thousands of Muslims gathered at Islamabad's towering Faisal mosque for special prayers for the dead.

Prayer leader Qari Nauman Ahmad urged people to donate what they could to quake victims and to seek God's forgiveness, saying continuing aftershocks were a sign that God was not happy.

Rescue workers abandoned the official search Friday for survivors trapped in the rubble, though individual efforts continued.

"There are still some affected areas that need to be reached," Sardar Anwar Khan, president of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, said in the badly quake-hit city of Muzaffarabad.

More delays could be catastrophic. UNICEF has warned that thousands of children could die from cold, malnutrition and disease.

Overnight rains also prevented troops from getting relief to the three villages still cut off in Indian Kashmir, where some 1,350 people have died, officials said.

Indian army soldiers on foot were trying to reach Taad, Shararat and Vayu — all at least 10,000 feet up in the Himalayas — said V.V. Vyas, a top provincial bureaucrat overseeing relief work.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051016/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_quake
 
This says that now in Pakistan, 73,276 people were counted as dead. :eek2:
:jaw:
They said that they still haven't reached all areas so there could be more dead people. :-o
 
RedFox said:
This says that now in Pakistan, 73,276 people were counted as dead. :eek2:
:jaw:
They said that they still haven't reached all areas so there could be more dead people. :-o
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Looks alike broke the record?!?
 
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