Casestudyon Pakistan earthquake

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By Daniel Davies!

Pakistan earthquake!

On Saturday October 8th, 2005 an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 on the Richter scale struck northern Pakistan. The two regions that were hit the hardest were the Northwest Frontier Province and the Azad Kashmir Province. At the time the earthquake struck, all the children were in school. The official death toll from the quake was around 83,000 and is expected to rise as high as 100,000. More than 60% of those were children and women. More than 80,000 people were injured, many with serious, life-changing injuries. Most of the affected areas are in mountainous regions and access is impeded by landslides that have blocked the roads. An estimated 3.3 million were left homeless in Pakistan. Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz made an appeal to survivors on 26 October to come down to valleys and cities for relief. It has been estimated that the damage costs are well over 5 billion US dollars.

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The earthquake caused widespread destruction in northern Pakistan, as well as damage in Afghanistan and northern India. The worst hit areas were Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), and western and southern parts of the Kashmir valley in the Indian-administered Kashmir. It also affected some parts of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the city of Karachi experienced a minor aftershock of magnitude 4.6.

147 aftershocks were registered in the first day after the initial massive quake that hit at 8:52 am, one of which had a magnitude of 6.2 (a tremor of magnitude six is rated as a ...

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