5.9 aftershock half an hour later.
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?
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.
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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?
we ought to toss a couple of nukes into the tribal regions where Osama is - we could say it was an "aftershock".
Hmmmm...some US corporations have done a lot of outsourcing to India. Wonder how many of them will be affected?
Magnitude 7.6
Date-Time Saturday, October 08, 2005 at 03:50:38 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time
Saturday, October 08, 2005 at 08:50:38 AM local time at epicenter
Location 34.43N 73.54E
Depth 10.0 kilometers
Region PAKISTAN
Wasn't there another big quake tonight off of South America? Where are the 'waves' headed?
I can picture Osama, stumbling, falling down a hillside, being spit out of a mountain...
AFP - Seism in South Asia: at least 23 died in the north of India
AFP - Seism: two children killed in Afghanistan
Trying to figure out, how this will end up as Bush's fault.
Prayers offered up for all effected areas.