Posted on 10/07/2005 9:45:14 PM PDT by Strategerist
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.
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.
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.
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