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.
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Things have been relatively calm between India and Pakistan lately, no? I remember 1999 (?) it looked they were going to war. Indian aircraft carrier was moved into position.
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.
For awhile there, that's where I thought we were going to see the first nuclear exchange between 2 nations.
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)
Thought I'd toss in for the benefit of the moon-nutters and Jim Berkland worshippers that yet again this quake was a day before a half moon, and about as far from a full or new moon as you can get.
yeah I'd say. How big was the one that did the tsunami? I can't remember
Ping!
I heartily agree with that sentiment. I'll donate too.
Best estimate of the Tsunami one is 9.15; somewhere in the neighborhood of maybe 50-70 times more powerful than this quake (if this quake doesn't have the magnitude adjusted upwards.)
Playing around with Google Earth, 34.432°N and 73.537°E is 55 miles Northeast of the capitol, Islamabad. They'll definitely feel a quake that size.
wow, thanks
LOL!! One way to get them out of town! :) Never did like or trust that Country.
Think it was upwardly adjusted to a 9.1 after the fact.
I really feel bad for the poor and innocent Pakis and Indians that may have been harmed by this quake.
I mean, I know how I'd do it, but how can it be done large-scale?
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.
You've just provided inspiration for my new tagline.
The quake was directly under a city of 125,000 people, Muzaffarbad, it appears.
The reports so far are from locations quite distant from the quake.
I'd expect thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, dead.
Scientific Paper on the history of Himalayan front quakes for those inclined..
http://cires.colorado.edu/~bilham/HimalayanMomentSmall.pdf
It appears this quake is a repeat of one back in 1555.
Bad news is it seems much of the Himalayan Front to the east of this quake (In India) is overdue for as many as four magnitude 8.5+ earthquakes.
AWESOME!
The Sumatra quakes were probably precursors to the biggies to come, or maybe not.
What a ride, either way.
Even with this quake the number of large quakes worldwide this year is still well below average.
That's because the giant rubber band inside the earth is getting wound tight again.
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
Only 6 miles down? Isn't that considered a very shallow quake? Usually you hear 30-50 miles down or so it seems...
Sure would seem that would cause a lot of damage.
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Nine am Sunday morning, 19 story building down?
That won't be pretty.
Probably not the only collapse either.
The damage that people are aware of so far is absolutely trivial compared to what has certainly occured. There have been no reports from the epicentral region, which is quite densely populated (in the millions.)
If there's a high rise down in Islamabad, then Abbotabad can't be doing well, there's a round million, Muzaffarabad and Manshera will add in around a hundred k each, but things thin out pretty quick after that.
Might be tough getting relief into Muzafferabad, if the bridges are down and the passes closed by rockfall. Might be quicker to bring aid down from the army positions in Kashmir, start driving a route through from both ends at once.
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/89927/photo11.html
CNN has it on right now with videos
Hope FEMA's not taking notes, there are still people in both remaining sections of that building.
The failed section didn't pancake, but it might as well have. All but the rooftop dropped essentially straight down. I think they have too many ambulances there, assets probably in short supply.
Here's a map of the area with the epicenter marked, on a 90 meter per pixel digital elevation model. Used to be you could get 30 meter DEMs of Pakistan, but that quit happening about the time of Operation Mountain Storm.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/jeffers_mz/Muzaffarabad.jpg
You almost have to hope that the contractor and inspectors were taking bribes on this building, otherwise Abbottabad's going to be a real mess, and Muzafferabad will have been vaporized.
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