Mag 7.6 Earthquake, Pakistan/India Border

USGS ^ | October 8, 2005

[Strategerist]

This is basically Kashmir, just over the border in Pakistan; I'll have to look at some old articles but it may be one of the massive Himalayan Front quakes that have been expected for quite some time. Seems shallow as well.

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.

[Palladin]

I hope Osama's rathole caved in on him.

[JLS]

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.

[sourcery]

Event time in selected time zones:

Sat, 8 Oct 2005 16:50:38 +1300 (NZDT: Pacific/Auckland)
Sat, 8 Oct 2005 13:50:38 +1000 (EST: Australia/Sydney)
Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:50:38 +0900 (JST: Asia/Tokyo)
Sat, 8 Oct 2005 11:50:38 +0800 (WST: Australia/Perth)
Sat, 8 Oct 2005 11:50:38 +0800 (HKT: Asia/Hong_Kong)
Sat, 8 Oct 2005 09:20:38 +0530 (IST: Asia/Calcutta)
Sat, 8 Oct 2005 07:50:38 +0400 (MSD: Europe/Moscow)
Sat, 8 Oct 2005 06:50:38 +0300 (IDT: Asia/Jerusalem)
Sat, 8 Oct 2005 05:50:38 +0200 (CEST: Europe/Amsterdam)
Sat, 8 Oct 2005 04:50:38 +0100 (BST: Europe/London)
Sat, 8 Oct 2005 03:50:38 +0000 (UT: Universal Time)
Sat, 8 Oct 2005 00:50:38 -0300 (BRT: America/Sao_Paulo)
Sat, 8 Oct 2005 00:50:38 -0300 (ART: America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires)
Fri, 7 Oct 2005 23:50:38 -0400 (EDT: America/New_York)
Fri, 7 Oct 2005 22:50:38 -0500 (CDT: America/Chicago)
Fri, 7 Oct 2005 21:50:38 -0600 (MDT: America/Denver)
Fri, 7 Oct 2005 20:50:38 -0700 (PDT: America/Los_Angeles)
Fri, 7 Oct 2005 17:50:38 -1000 (HST: Pacific/Honolulu)

[endthematrix]

We've unleashed the SUPER MOAB....

[SevenMinusOne]

I hope Osama's rathole caved in on him.

I hear you - But I still hope it comes from us putting guns on his as$ -

The day is coming -

[Strategerist]

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

[Strategerist]

It's an exceedingly unlikely location for Bin Laden to be anywhere near; it's the Indian border, not the Afghan border.

[Arizona Carolyn]

That was my first thought, based on the location.

[xrp]

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.

[SevenMinusOne]

It's an exceedingly unlikely location for Bin Laden to be anywhere near; it's the Indian border, not the Afghan border.

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.

[ozaukeemom]

ping

[InvisibleChurch]

I'd like to think that he banged his head on an overhang while running out of the cave

[PhiKapMom]

FYI!

[Strategerist]

Well, this quake had more energy than all the nukes in the world put together.

[indcons]

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.

[PhiKapMom]

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.

[NordP]

It's George Bush's fault!

(/sarcasm)