Posted on 10/07/2005 9:45:14 PM PDT by Strategerist
Magnitude 7.6 PAKISTAN Saturday, October 08, 2005 at 03:50:38 UTC Preliminary Earthquake Report U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center World Data Center for Seismology, Denver The following is a release by the United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center: A major earthquake occurred about 95 km (60 miles) north-northeast of Islamabad, Pakistan at 9:50 PM MDT, Oct 7, 2005 (Oct 08 at 8:50 AM local time in Pakistan). The magnitude and location may be revised when additional data and further analysis results are available. No reports of damage or casualties have been received at this time; however, this earthquake may have caused substantial damage and casualties due to its location and size. The magnitude was furnished by the USGS National Earthquake Information Center. .
Been a very low number of people killed by quakes this year; this one is going to end up pretty bad.
EMSC has it as a 7.5. Chance the magnitude could be adjusted upwards, I suppose.
I hope Osama's rathole caved in on him.
I hope Osama's rathole caved in on him.
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Yeah that would be a silver lining. Of course if is shook him out of his rathole and we got him it might be better. But it also might be worse.
Sat, 8 Oct 2005 16:50:38 +1300 (NZDT: Pacific/Auckland)
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Sat, 8 Oct 2005 09:20:38 +0530 (IST: Asia/Calcutta)
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We've unleashed the SUPER MOAB....
I hear you - But I still hope it comes from us putting guns on his as$ -
The day is coming -
Calm being a relative term, yeah, calmer than it has been. I think both recognize the futility of a war.
Anyway, found some of what I was looking for...there clearly was enough energy on the western end of the Himalayan front to generate a quake this big or even bigger..
http://cires.colorado.edu/~bilham/HimSeismicGaps.html
It's an exceedingly unlikely location for Bin Laden to be anywhere near; it's the Indian border, not the Afghan border.
That was my first thought, based on the location.
I'm surprised there's nothing written like "the earthquake doesn't appear to have caused a tsunami" as most articles do whenever discussing earthquakes, cows farting or fat people walking.
Agreed - Though as rumors go in the border region - UBL was speculated to have moved toward Kashmir early in the Spring - Then again rumors are the one thing abundant in this region of the World.
ping
I'd like to think that he banged his head on an overhang while running out of the cave
FYI!
Well, this quake had more energy than all the nukes in the world put together.
Thanks for the ping, PKM. Hope the jihadis have taken quite a few losses. I don't have the slightest pity for them.
Prayers for the innocent though.
I was thinking the same thing -- maybe some of our OU Pakistani students should return to help out -- I would donate to a fund for plane tickets right now.
(/sarcasm)
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