Earthquake!

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Quake hits Indo-Pakistan border

Just found a link for ya. Terrible. It is just breaking across the wires now.

The US Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of at least 7.6 and the epicentre was northeast of Islamabad.

Japan's Meteorological Agency put the magnitude at 7.8.
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thanks. :) :thumbleft: ..... News alerts just starting to come in via e-mail. now.
..........gotta follow this one now. Ya know , there are continuing "natural disasters" without stupid men starting man made ones. (sorry to bring that up......but it sure irks... to see all this suffering......most of it so un nec.....(sigh..)
 
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Re: RE: Earthquake!

"no1importantJust found a link for ya. Terrible. It is just breaking across the wires now.

The US Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of at least 7.6 and the epicentre was northeast of Islamabad.

Japan's Meteorological Agency put the magnitude at 7.8.
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WHOA!!! That's MAJOR!!!
 
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this is terrible news. It seems like natural disaster have been dominating much of the news in the past year. My prayers will be with them.
 
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this is terrible news. It seems like natural disaster have been dominating much of the news in the past year. My prayers will be with them.
 
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Oct 8, 2005 — A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake near the Pakistan-India border Saturday reduced villages to rubble, triggered landslides and flattened an apartment building. More than 2,000 people were killed in both nations, and a Pakistan army spokesman called the devastation "a national tragedy."

The toll included 250 girls who died when their school in northwestern Pakistan collapsed. Another 500 students were injured, said Ataullah Khan Wazir, police chief in the northwestern district of Mansehra.

In the capitals of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, buildings shook and walls swayed for about a minute, and panicked people ran from their homes and offices. Tremors continued for hours afterward. Communications throughout the region were cut.


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About 1,000 people were killed in Pakistani Kashmir, said Sardar Mohammed Anwar, the top government official in the area. The army said 200 soldiers there were killed.

"This is my conservative guess, and the death toll could be much higher," Anwar told Pakistan's Aaj television station.

He said most homes in Muzaffarabad, the area's capital, were damaged, and schools and hospitals had collapsed.

The U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site the quake hit at 8:50 a.m. local time and had a magnitude of 7.6. It was centered about 60 miles northeast of Islamabad in the forested mountains of Pakistani Kashmir.

"The damage and casualties could be massive and it is a national tragedy," chief army spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan told The Associated Press. "This is the worst earthquake in recent times."

Damage was extensive in Kashmir, the disputed Himalayan territory divided between India and Pakistan.

Officials in the Indian-controlled portion reported at least 250 people killed, including 20 soldiers who perished in a landslide. At least 850 people were injured and about 2,700 homes were destroyed or damaged across Jammu-Kashmir, said senior state official B.B. Vyas.

Army soldiers and local volunteers were rescuing people from under the debris of collapsed houses. Telephone lines were down. Bridges had developed cracks, but traffic was passing over them.
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:cry: :cry:

Afganistan has just had it's problems compounded. :cry:
 
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yballa09 said:
this is terrible news. It seems like natural disaster have been dominating much of the news in the past year. My prayers will be with them.
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yes, it seems that way.......particularly when the "man made disasters" are causing havoc and NOT making the news as much as they should.

hmmm.
 
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UK sends aid teams to Asian quake

The earthquake has affected a vast area in South Asia
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has announced an initial aid package to help the victims of the earthquake in southern Asia.
The government is donating £100,000 and sending around 50 relief workers to to provide aid in the region.

Many British Kashmiris are unable to get through to relatives and one charity said the community was "shocked and devastated".

Several UK charities are now on standby to send aid into the region.

The 7.6 magnitude quake hit Pakistan, Afghanistan and northern India, wiping out several villages in Kashmir.

Fire service search and rescue teams from Grampian, Lincolnshire, Greater Manchester and Lancashire will fly to the region on Saturday night, at the request of the Fire Service Inspectorate.

A spokesman for the inspectorate said Lincolnshire would be sending a search and rescue dog team.

Visas issued

Mr Straw, who is MP for Blackburn in Lancashire, said the disaster would have a strong impact on British communities.

"All of us are shocked whenever news like this comes through, wherever the disaster is taking place.

We really don't know anything. We are trying to get in contact with friends and family, but we can't get through

Parveen Khan


My fears for family after quake

"But in this particular case, because so many people in this country - so many of my own constituents - hail from Pakistan, or their families do, of course the anxiety and the shock is even greater," he said.

"My message to them is that we're going to do - and we are doing - everything we can for British people of Pakistani heritage, number one, and two, for Pakistanis of whatever connections."

Earlier Mr Straw said the government was "ready to respond to all requests", adding there was so far no news of any British casualties in the region.

The Pakistan High Commission has opened their central London office to issue visas to those who have lost relatives in Pakistan.

Manzoor ul-Haq, a diplomat at the commission said: "We are receiving calls and responding to them, and we have opened our office and we are providing visa facilities to all those who have lost their relatives in Pakistan and want to go there and those who want to go in connection with relief assistance."

He said staff were also working at Heathrow, Birmingham and Manchester airports to issue visas.

Total devastation

Ishfaq Ahmed, chief executive of the Kashmir International Relief Fund, London, said the feeling among Kashmiri communities in Britain was "total devastation".

Mr Ahmed said: "The reason is not being able to get through to Kashmir. At the moment we have no idea of what is going on. We can't get through to any city."

Four of my housemates are from Muzaffarabad and every single one of them has lost a loved one in this tragic earthquake

Muhammad, London


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He added the fund was setting up a public appeal to send aid into the region.

Parveen Khan, 31 from North London, originally from Rawalakot in the Poonch district in Kashmir, told the BBC News website of her shock.

She said: "We really don't know anything. We are trying to get in contact with friends and family, but we can't get through.

"My family's house is in a small village in a very hilly area, it's very remote and they have little access to resources. It just happened so quickly, it's just such a shock.

"I don't think anything has happened there on this scale before. There might have been small tremors but nothing to this extent at all."

Aid response

Defence Secretary John Reid, who returned from the area on Friday, expressed "shock and regret" at the disaster.

"Having returned from this region only yesterday, following a visit designed to strengthen our countries' work on counter-terrorism, my thoughts and sympathies are with all those affected by this tragedy," he said.

"I am grateful and relieved that UK troops supporting the reconstruction of Afghanistan have been unaffected by the earthquake," he added.

The earthquake struck about 8.50am local time (4.50am BST). Its epicentre was 80km (50 miles) north-east of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.

Oxfam's Humanitarian Response coordinator in Islamabad, Raphael Sindaye, said the charity "will be mobilising its existing partners and resources in the response".


The initial needs appear to be tents, blankets, medical kits, food aid, water and trauma counselling for those affected

Raphael Sindaye, Oxfam

He said: "The initial needs appear to be tents, blankets, medical kits, food aid, water and trauma counselling for those affected".

The charity's earthquake response co-ordinator, Jane Cocking, said the UK-based charity was meeting other aid agencies and the UN to co-ordinate a response.

London-based relief agency Muslim Aid said it had made £100,000 immediately available in the wake of the tragedy.

Treasurer Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin said: "Our field officer, Syed Muaijuddin, is on his way with a team of volunteers to the worst affected area, Muzaffarabad in Kashmir, with relief supplies.

"Further funds will be made available once the situation becomes more clear."
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anyone know what Canada is doing to assist?? Or is it too early to know what help will be needed most???
 
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and then there is....

Rain, Mudslides in Latin America Kill 269, Many Missing
By VOA News
08 October 2005



Latin American officials say the death toll from heavy rains and mudslides in Central America and Mexico in wake of Hurricane Stan has climbed to at least 269.

The storm hit Central America last week, and Mexico's Gulf Coast Tuesday. Heavy rains continued the rest of the week, and more rain is forecast.


Rescue workers carry body of child found dead after mudslide in Panabaj, south of Guatemala City
Guatemala was the hardest hit with at least 177 reported deaths. Reuters news agency says local officials report hundreds of people are missing.

Officials say at least 67 people were killed in El Salvador. Fifteen deaths are reported in Mexico, and another 10 in Nicaragua.

Thousands of people in the region are in shelters or homeless after their homes were covered in mud or washed away. Relief efforts across the region are under way.

In 1998, massive mudslides caused by Hurricane Mitch killed 10,000 people in the same region.
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( should have titled this : current Natural Disasters..... :oops:
 
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Death toll soars to 18,000 in earthquake on India-Pakistan border -

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And of course one question arises:

What if bin Laden harmed in quake?

Wed, October 12, 2005

By KATHERINE SHRADER, AP
WASHINGTON -- Did Osama bin Laden's secret lair crumble in the earthquake that devastated northwest Pakistan?

So far, U.S. government officials and terrorism experts caution against too much speculation about whether the al-Qaida chief may have been killed, injured or forced from hiding.

"There's a lot of people who know that that's an obvious question" was the most Pentagon spokesperson Lawrence Di Rita would say yesterday.

Federal officials who track terrorism for a living said there's no evidence yet to suggest bin Laden or his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, were harmed by the quake.

Yet the quake has caused many in and out of government to ask, "What if?"

URL: http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/International/2005/10/12/1258555-sun.html

One can ask, right? What if?

Uncle
 
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