5.2 earthquake jolts Peshawar, adjacent districts. Rain, snowfall making a bad situation worse.

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  Last Updated On 02 November,2015

 

 

The epicenter of the earthquake was Koh-e-Suleman

 

PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – The earthquake of 5.2 magnitude on Richter scale on Monday jolted several districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including Peshawar and adjacent areas, Dunya News reported.

The earthquake jolts sparked panic among the locals who evacuated the buildings while reciting prayers. As per the Metrological center, today’s jolts were of 5.2 magnitude while the US Geological Survey recorded it at 4.9.

The epicenter of the earthquake was Koh-e-Suleman.

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5.2 earthquake jolts Peshawar, adjacent districts

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Last Updated On 02 November,2015

 The epicenter of the earthquake was Koh-e-Suleman PESHAWAR (Local TV) – The earthquake of 5.2 magnitude on Richter scale on Monday jolted several districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including Peshawar and adjacent areas, Local TV reported. The earthquake jolts sparked panic among the locals who evacuated the buildings while reciting prayers. As per the Metrological center, today’s jolts were of 5.2 magnitude while the US Geological Survey recorded it at 4.9. The epicenter of the earthquake was Koh-e-Suleman. Read: PM Nawaz directs to ensure immediate delivery of relief goods, money to quake-hit areas Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday reached the earthquake affected areas once again where he directed to ensure immediate delivery of relief goods and compensation money to the affectees. PM Nawaz said the planning to rehabilitate the affected areas and people has been completed and that the cheques will be distributed tomorrow (Tuesday). He thanked Pakistan Army and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on cooperation. Addressing the earthquake affectees in Bajaur, PM Nawaz said programmes are being started to rebuild houses that were destroyed in the earthquake. He said he desires the houses are rebuilt before the intense cold begins. He thanked General Raheel Sharif and KP government upon cooperation. PM Nawaz said the compensation money are not substitute of lost lives but the government is doing everything it can to share the grief of the affectees.

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Rain, snowfall add to woes of earthquake victims

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Last Updated On 03 November,2015 10:40 am


With temperatures already plummeting as winter fast approaches, there is no time to delay.


ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - The victims of October 26 earthquake and its subsequent aftershocks, who have been living out in the open, are facing additional problems due to rain and snowfall in upper parts of Pakistan. According to Met Office, scattered rain-thunderstorm with snowfall over the hills is expected at Malakand, Hazara divisions, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir during the next 12 hours. Spokesman of Met-Office informed that a westerly wave has entered Pakistan on Sunday evening. Under the influence of this weather system rain/thunderstorm is expected at scattered places of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir and at isolated places of Zhob, Quetta, Rawalpindi, Sargodha divisions and Islamabad during Monday to Wednesday. Snowfall is also expected over the hills of Malakand, Hazara divisions, GB and Kashmir during the period. Expected minimum temperature range in Dir will be between 03 to 05°C, Lower Dir 08 to 10°C, Chitral 06 to 08°C, Gilgit 03 to 05°C and Hunza 02 to 04°C.


According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), at least 271 people have been killed and more than 35,000 houses damaged in Pakistan due to powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake on October 26. The quake was centred near Jurm in northeast Afghanistan, 250 kilometres (160 miles) from the capital Kabul and at a depth of 213.5 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said. A report released by the NDMA says 32 people were killed in Chitral, the Pakistani town closest to the quake s epicenter.

At least 50 people were killed in the nearby Shangla, the country's worst affected area.

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Asia earthquake death toll reaches 350... forcing the Taliban to call a truce to allow aid workers to treat the injured

By Simon Tomlinson for MailOnline

 

Published: 07:37 EST, 27 October 2015 | Updated: 14:39 EST, 27 October 2015 

 

Agony: A boy who was injured in the 7.5 magnitude earthquake receives medical treatment at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan

The Taliban today called a truce to allow aid agencies to push ahead with emergency relief after a massive quake hit Pakistan and Afghanistan, killing more than 350 people.

The toll was expected to rise as search teams reach remote areas that were cut off by yesterday's 7.5-magnitude quake, which triggered landslides and stampedes as it toppled buildings and severed communication lines.

Relief operations to assess the damage have been hindered by an unstable security situation that has left much of the affected areas unsafe for international aid workers and government troops.

But the Taliban, which have stepped up their Islamist insurgency against the Western-backed government in Kabul this year, indicated they would not stand in the way of aid efforts.

 

A man and his son clear rubble from their house after it was damaged by an earthquake in Behsud district of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan

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7.5-magnitude quake was centered deep beneath the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan, hundreds killed. Rescue efforts expand to neighboring Pakistan

 

 

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Rescue work expands in quake-hit Pakistan, Afghanistan

Associated Press Tuesday, October 27, 2015

 

 

Photo by: The Associated Press

Patients who were shifted outdoors at the government medical college hospital after a strong tremor was felt in Jammu, India, Monday, Oct. 26, 2015. A strong earthquake in northern Afghanistan was felt across much of South Asia on Monday, shaking buildings from Kabul to Delhi and cutting power and communications in some areas. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

KABUL, Afghanistan — Authorities in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan intensified rescue and relief operations Tuesday in rugged, earthquake-affected areas as the death toll rose to at least 270.
Monday's 7.5-magnitude quake was centered deep beneath the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan's sparsely populated Badakhshan province, which borders Pakistan, Tajikistan and China, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Pakistani government official Amir Afaq said Tuesday that civil and military authorities had reached the remote, impoverished areas in the country's northwest to help the quake victims. "We are transporting tents, medicines and other items to quake-hit areas," he said. The quake damaged nearly 2,000 homes in the area, he said.

Troops and military doctors had reached the quake zone and were engaged in rescue work, Pakistani army spokesman Lt. Gen. Asil Saleem Bajwa said.

The quake shook buildings in the Afghan capital of Kabul early Monday afternoon for up to 45 seconds, creating cracks in walls and shutting down power. Frightened workers who had just returned from lunch break rushed out of swaying buildings in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad and the Indian capital of New Delhi.

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8 earthquakes in map area

1. M 4.1 - 40km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan

   2015-10-26 23:35:20 UTC 207.3 km

2. M 4.5 - 42km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan

   2015-10-26 16:47:21 UTC 199.7 km

3. M 4.1 - 40km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan

   2015-10-26 15:47:27 UTC 207.9 km

4. M 4.1 - 49km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan

   2015-10-26 15:39:10 UTC 208.1 km

5. M 4.7 - 45km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan

   2015-10-26 11:16:16 UTC 199.0 km

6. M 4.4 - 44km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan

   2015-10-26 11:14:42 UTC 216.3 km

7. M 4.8 - 42km E of Farkhar, Afghanistan

   2015-10-26 09:49:38 UTC 198.2 km

8. M 7.5 - 45km N of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan

   2015-10-26 09:09:32 UTC 212.5 km

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Mini Passenger Bus Gets Stuck Crossing The River in Pakistan

     

Mini Bus Gets Stuck Crossing The River

Joseph Martin

Published on Oct 21, 2015

A bus carrying 10 passengers got stuck in the middle of the river "lowari top dir upper" in Pakistan.

Pakistan Landslide Kills 13, Including 7 Children, in Karachi Slum

 

 

 

By Sean Breslin

Published Oct 13 2015 11:35 AM EDT

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A woman mourns the death of a member in her family, a victim of landslide, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil) 

 

 

At least 13 people were killed early Tuesday when a hillside gave way and buried several makeshift homes in a slum of southern Pakistan's port city of Karachi, officials said.

The mass of mud and rocks came down the hill and hit a camp in the capital of the southern Sindh province, according to the Associated Press. It has not been determined if weather caused the collapse.

Seven children were among those killed by the disaster, officials told the BBC.


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3 New Islands Form in Arabian Sea Following 7.7 Pakistan Earthquake!

DAHBOO77

Published on Sep 27, 2013

 

It will be interesting to see what another large quake might bring...Minus the casulties :(

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Pakistan gets three new islands

Thursday - Sep 26, 2013, 06:15pm (GMT+5.5)

New Delhi - Pakistan has just got three brand new islands -- thanks to a major earthquake.
When the shock of the temblor subsided Tuesday, people living in the coastal town of Gwadar were stunned to see a new island in the sea.
That's not all. Two other islands have come up along the Balochistan coast.
"The island near Gwadar is about 600 feet in diameter and has a height of about 30 feet," Muhammad Moazzam Khan, technical advisor at WWF - Pakistan, told IANS over telephone.
He said "gas was coming out" of the island, which primarily consists of "stones and soft mud".
The two islands near Ormara town are small.
Khan said the islands had a diameter of about "30-40 feet and a height of about 2-3 feet".
"Gas is also coming out," he said.
He said that while some islands which form suddenly "stay on", others gradually fade away.
He explained that the islands were formed following the massive earthquake that rocked Balochistan province Tuesday.
The death toll in the 7.7-magnitude earthquake has reached 348, and a total of 20,000 houses were destroyed.
This is not the first time islands have formed off the Pakistan coast.
"In 1945, two big islands had formed near the coast. One was two kilometers long while the other was 1/2 km long," said Khan.

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Pakistan : 7.7 Mag Earthquake 's death toll rises to 348. Mysterious Island (mud volcano) draws speculation

Magnitude 7.7 earthquake kills hundreds in Pakistan

Posted Sep 25, 2013
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Hungry survivors dug through rubble to find food and thousands slept under the open sky or in makeshift shelters for a second night as the death toll from Pakistan’s massive earthquake rose to 348 on Thursday. Rescuers battled to reach remote areas of the impoverished region in the wake of Tuesday’s magnitude 7.7 quake in southwestern Baluchistan province.

 

Pakistani survivors sit under a makeshift shelter in the earthquake-devastated district of Awaran on September 25, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Banaras KHAN/AFP/Getty Images

 

Pakistani child survivors are treated in makeshift hospital in the earthquake-devastated district of Awaran on September 25, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Banaras KHAN/AFP/Getty Images

 

Pakistani earthquake survivors search through the debris of their collapsed houses in the devastated district of Awaran on September 25, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Banaran KHAN/AFP/Getty Images

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How Did the Pakistan Earthquake Create a Mud Island?

A mud volcano is thought to be behind new landmass.

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck a remote part of Pakistan with enough force to create a small island.

Photograph from Gwadar Government/AP

Brian Clark Howard

National Geographic

Published September 25, 2013

On Tuesday, a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck a remote part of western Pakistan, killing more than 260 people and displacing hundreds of thousands. It also triggered formation of a new island off the coast, which has quickly become a global curiosity.

But scientists say the island won't last long.

"It's a transient feature," said Bill Barnhart, a research geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey. "It will probably be gone within a couple of months. It's just a big pile of mud that was on the seafloor that got pushed up."

Indeed, such islands are formed by so-called mud volcanoes, which occur around the world, and Barnhart and other scientists suspect that's what we're seeing off the Pakistani coast.

News organizations have reported that the Pakistani island suddenly appeared near the port of Gwadar after the quake. The island is about 60 to 70 feet (18 to 21 meters) high, up to 300 feet (91 meters) wide, and up to 120 feet (37 meters) long, reports the AFP.

Media reports have located the new island at just a few paces to up to two kilometers off the coast of Pakistan. It is about 250 miles (400 kilometers) from the epicenter of the earthquake.

Map by National Geographic maps.

The island appears to be primarily made out of mud from the seafloor, although photos show rocks as well, Barnhart told National Geographic. He has has been studying images and media accounts of the new island from his lab in Golden, Colorado.

"It brought up a dead octopus, and people have been picking up fish on [the island]," he said.

A similar mud island appeared off Pakistan after a 2011 earthquake there, Barnhart said: "It lasted a month or two and then washed away."

How Mud Volcanoes Work

Though mud volcanoes have been seen elsewhere, they don't always produce islands.

Such volcanoes were seen in California after a 2010 earthquake, Barnhart noted, when the tremors caused carbon dioxide to bubble up through the ground, but the result was "vigorous boiling," not new islands.

Barnhart said Pakistani scientists will soon be measuring the new landmass to better understand how it formed.

People walk along the island that emerged after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck a remote part of Pakistan.

Photograph from Gwadar Government/AP

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TIME World

A Bird’s Eye View of Earth’s Newest Island

Sept. 27, 2013

DigitalGlobe / Getty ImagesThis island was created off the coast of Gwadar when Pakistan was hit by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake on Sept. 24, 2013. Imagery collected on Sept. 26, 2013.

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Pakistan quake island unlikely to last: experts

by Staff Writers
Gwadar, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 25, 2013
A small island of mud and rock created by the huge earthquake that hit southwest Pakistan has fascinated locals but experts -- who found methane gas rising from it -- say it is unlikely to last long.
The 7.7-magnitude quake struck on Tuesday in Baluchistan's remote Awaran district, killing at least 271 people and affecting hundreds of thousands.
Off the coastline near the port of Gwadar, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) from the epicentre, locals were astonished to see the dark grey mass of rock and mud that had emerged from the waves in the Arabian Sea.
"It is not a small thing, but a huge thing which has emerged from under the water," Gwadar resident Muhammad Rustam told AFP.
"It looked very, very strange to me and also a bit scary because suddenly a huge thing has emerged from the water."
Enterprising boat owners were doing a brisk trade ferrying curious sightseers to the island -- dubbed "Earthquake Mountain" by locals.
Mohammad Danish, a marine biologist from Pakistan's National Institute of Oceanography, said a team of experts had visited the island and found methane gas rising.
"Our team found bubbles rising from the surface of the island which caught fire when a match was lit and we forbade our team to start any flame. It is methane gas," Danish said on GEO television news.
The island is about 60 to 70 feet (18 to 21 metres) high, up to 300 feet wide and up to 120 feet long, he said. It sits about 650 feet from the coast.
The surface was a solid but muddy mix of stones, sand and water with visible cracks, said an AFP cameraman who visited the island. Dead fish and sea plants lay on the surface.
Gary Gibson, a seismologist with Australia's University of Melbourne, said the new island was likely to be a "mud volcano", created by methane gas forcing material upwards during the violent shaking of the earthquake.
"It's happened before in that area but it's certainly an unusual event, very rare," Gibson told AFP, adding that it was "very curious" to see such activity some 400 kilometres from the quake's epicentre.
The so-called island is not a fixed structure but a body of mud that will be broken down by wave activity and dispersed over time, the scientist said.


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Pakistan earthquake death toll rises as rescuers struggle to help injured

Provincial official puts death toll from magnitude 7.7 quake in Awaran district in Baluchistan at 210, with 375 people injured

• Associated Press in Quetta
• theguardian.com, Wednesday 25 September 2013 03.06 EDT

The rubble of a house after the magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck in Awaran district, Baluchistan province, Pakistan. Photograph: Stringer/Pakistan/Reuters

 

Rescuers are struggling to help thousands of people injured and left homeless after their houses collapsed in a massive earthquake in south-western Pakistan as the death toll rose to 210, officials said.
The magnitude 7.7 quake struck in the remote district of Awaran in Pakistan's Baluchistan province on Tuesday afternoon. Such a quake is considered major, capable of widespread and heavy damage.
The tremors were felt as far away as New Delhi, the Indian capital, some 740 miles (1,200km) away.
A provincial official, Zahid bin Maqsood, put the death toll at 210 and said 375 people had been injured, while a spokesman for the provincial government, Jan Mohammad Bulaidi, put the death toll at 216 – the conflicting figures likely to be due to the difficulty in contacting local officials and people in the remote region.
In the densely populated city of Karachi on the Arabian Sea and Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, people ran into the streets in panic when the quake it, praying for their lives.-


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Pakistanis struggle for food, shelter after quake

AP
Quetta, Pakistan, September 26, 2013

First Published: 10:26 IST(26/9/2013)
Last Updated: 15:44 IST(26/9/2013)

Hungry survivors dug through rubble to find food and thousands slept under the open sky or in makeshift shelters for a second night as the death toll from Pakistan's massive earthquake rose to 348 on Thursday.
Rescuers battled to reach remote areas of the impoverished region in
the wake of Tuesday's magnitude 7.7 quake in southwestern Baluchistan province.
The quake had flattened wide swathes of Awaran district where it was centered, leaving much of the population homeless.
The spokesman for the provincial government, Jan Mohammad Bulaidi, said 348 people have been confirmed dead so far and 552 people had been injured.
"We need more tents, more medicine and more food," Bulaidi said earlier.
In the village of Dalbadi, almost all of the 300 mud-brick homes were destroyed. Noor Ahmad said he was working when the quake struck and rushed home to find his house leveled and his wife and son dead.
"I'm broken," he said. "I have lost my family."
Doctors in the village treated some of the injured, but due to a scarcity of medicine and staff, they were mostly seen comforting the survivors.
Awaran district is one of the poorest in the country's most impoverished province. Many people use four-wheel-drive vehicles and camels to traverse the rough terrain.


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Pakistan earthquake toll reaches 328

Thursday, September 26, 2013 » 06:32am

The death toll from a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that hit southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday has risen to 328.

Desperate villagers in southwest Pakistan are clawing through the wreckage of their ruined homes, a day after a huge earthquake struck, killing more than 300 people.
The 7.7-magnitude quake hit on Tuesday afternoon in Baluchistan province's remote and Awaran district.
At least 328 people have been confirmed dead and more than 450 injured, according to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) and the Baluchistan government.
In the village of Dalbedi, the earthquake - Pakistan's deadliest since the devastating Kashmir quake of 2005, which killed 73,000 - flattened some 250 houses.
Bewildered villagers dug with their hands through the rubble of their mud houses in Dalbedi to retrieve what was left of their meagre possessions.
Their simple houses destroyed, they used rags, old clothes, sheets and tree branches to shelter their families from the sun.
Farmer Noor Ahmed, 45, said the tremors lasted for two minutes and turned buildings in the village into piles of mud.
'We have lost everything, even our food is now buried under mud, and water from underground channels is now undrinkable because of excessive mud in it due to the earthquake,' he told AFP.


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