5.9 aftershock half an hour later.
Posted on 10/07/2005 10:21:53 PM PDT by Perdogg
ISLAMABAD, Oct. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- A strong earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale rocked major Pakistani cities of Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar on Saturday morning, according to local TV reports.
The quake shook buildings in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, for about a minute at around 8:50 a.m. local time.
It also shook northern India and part of Afghanistan as Xinhua reporters in New Delhi and Kabul said both the capitals felt the shakings of the quake.
The India Meteorological Department said the earthquake's epicenter was in Pakistan. In India, the first tremor was felt at 9:25 a.m. Saturday in India-controlled Kashmir, north India's Uttaranchal, Punjab, Rajasthan, west India's Gujarat and the capital city Delhi.
Strong quakes have pushed people out of their homes in Srinagarin India-controlled Kashmir, according to NDTV reports.
High rise buildings were left particularly shaken by the tremor lasting for about minutes in Delhi. Enditem
5.9 aftershock half an hour later.
So if the muslims claim that Hurrican Katrina was sent by allah to punish the US, how come he's sending earthquakes to Pakistan?
Did some goat herder eat before sundown this week?
ok.. how many?
Quake Hits Pakistan, Afghanistan, India
By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake rocked parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan on Saturday, injuring at least a dozen people. Part of a 19-story building collapsed in the Pakistani capital.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20051008/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_quake_6
Rescue workers were on the scene of the collapse in Islamabad, and at least two injured people were carried from the debris.
In the Pakistani city of Lahore at least eight people were injured and four shops were damaged, police said. The earthquake also damaged part of a school in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, injuring at least two girls.
U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Jerry O'Hara said the quake was felt at Bagram, the main American base in Afghanistan, but he had no reports of damage there or at other bases around the country.
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 58 miles north-northeast of Islamabad at a depth of about six miles.
Arif Mahmood, a seismological official in the northwestern city of Peshawar, said the earthquake was felt in much of Pakistan.
"It was a very strong earthquake," he said.
Panicked people ran out of homes and offices in many cities. Local television said the quake caused panic in Islamabad, as well as nearby Rawalpindi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta near the Afghan border.
It also frightened residents of the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir, which is divided between India and Pakistan and claimed in entirety by both.
In Islamabad, buildings shook and walls swayed for about a minute. Slight tremors continued afterward.
Residents in the Afghan capital, Kabul, also felt the temblor, fleeing their homes for fear they would collapse. Kabul is about 400 miles northwest of Islamabad.
"We are calling all our officials in the provinces. But we haven't received any reports yet of casualties," said Saed Jawad Qanah, an official in Kabul with the disaster department of the Red Crescent Society.
The tremor also affected northern India.
"It was so strong that I saw buildings swaying. It was terrifying," said Hari Singh, a guard in an apartment complex in the New Delhi suburb of Noida. Hundreds of residents there raced down from their apartments after their beds and couches started shaking.
Punnishment for not killing enough infidels and spreading Islam around the world. Don't you know anything about Muhammadism?
Wonder how much Aid this is gonna cost us.
19 story building down...this can't be good.
ping
That's an odd sentence for you.
I hope the building are able to put this behind them and get on with their inanimate lives.
I can't help feeling a bit vindicated. Didn't these islamowackos say the hurricanes were allah's retribution on the United States?
It will cost us plenty. Islamic fanatics will redouble their terrorist efforts to please the black stone god allah, and kill more infidels.
The building would have probably survived the quake. However, South Asia is not really known for good or ethical construction practices. A brief examination of this building will show that every law in the building code was violated.
we ought to toss a couple of nukes into the tribal regions where Osama is - we could say it was an "aftershock".
Excellent suggestion: we could also call it Allah's punishment for muslim procreation.
how could you tell the difference if that area was nuked?
you know..it stikes me as odd.... if the 'Holy War' comes down to trying to figure out which side 'Mother Nature' is on....lol. Much else the 'real deal'...global warming and all..lol.
Shock and awe?
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