Archive for November, 2005
Sen. Clinton Raises Funds for Pakistan Earthquake
Seven weeks after a devastating earthquake hit South Asia, Senator
Source: WNYC News
Design for a Winterized Home.
These are modular in constructions, made up of blocks of interlocking modules, as shown in the attached figures. These blocks can be fabricated by plastic molding machines; each block is a 2×1x0.2 feet plastic molded container, the air in the container acts as an insulator making them ideal for constructing winterized home. They snap on next to each other and can be placed in the form of a wall, making them ideal for a quick building project.
Submitted by:
Ashfaq A. Khan akhan@aklinux.com 225-769-3259
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Low Cost Earthquake Proof Houses
Pak American Constructions have introduced low cost earthquake proof houses that have following features:
- Low Costing Construction
- Light Weight Blocks (Weight less than 2 kg)
- Sound Proof Blocks
- Earthquake Proof (Test reports are available)
- Quick turn-around in the manufacturing (24 hours – or less, if accelerators or steam curing methods are employed).
- Fire rated to a minimum of 2 hours for a 75mm (3”) thick panel (Test reports are available).
For details, please contact:
Rehan Sagheer Marketing Director Pak American Constructions Karachi, Pakistan (Head office in U.S.A) Cell 0301-2842552 Fax: 0218251485 Email: rehan_saghir@hotmail.com pakamconstruction@yahoo.com
Pakistani Army developed Geographic Information System in quake- hit areas
Angelina Jolie to adopt a baby in Pakistan?
The pillow-lipped beauty - who has two adopted children, Maddox and Zahara -has made no secret of her desire to have more babies.Last month, the actress hinted she is ready to add another child to her family. She told America’s People magazine at a benefit for the Worldwide Orphans Foundation, “It’s a very special thing. There’s something about making a choice, waking up and traveling somewhere and finding your family.”
British contribution for earthquake relief
Overview
An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale (and at a depth 10 kilometres) hit at 08.50 Pakistan time (03.50 GMT), on 8 October 2005 with the epicentre in Muzaffarabad, 95 km north-northeast of Islamabad; a highly populated region. The earthquake covered an area of approximately 30,000 sq. miles and affected nine districts in Pakistan in total: Abbottabad, Batagram, Mansehra, Shangla, and Kohistan in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Muzaffarabad, Neelum, Poonch and Bagh in Pakistan Administered Kashmir. The latest death toll in Pakistan has reached 73,318, with 69,392 injured. One British citizen was killed. Around 3.5 million people have been affected (500,000 families) and nearly 2.5 million people have lost their homes. In India official reports indicate that there were 1,307 deaths and 4,500 people injured. Estimates are that up to one million people have been affected across four districts. The Indian government has not called for international assistance.
Time runs out for animal survivors of Pakistan quake
With their homes and barns in ruins and winter fast approaching, many fear they won’t be able to keep alive the animals that survived the October 8 quake after the snow comes, so they’re slaughtering and selling them.
But agriculture and health officials say farm animals are vital for the mountain people of northern Pakistan — for both their health and economic well being — and the animal survivors of the quake must be kept alive.
“We’re very frightened when farmers begin selling their assets. What happens next year?” said Keith Ursel of the U.N. World Food Program, which is helping to feed about 1 million human survivors of the quake.
Shelter work slowing down?
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) coordinator Jean-Philipe Bourgeois said many villagers had not started preparing a shelter from the ruins of their destroyed homes because they thought if they rebuilt they would not get compensation the government is promising victims.
“They had heard that for every destroyed house they would get 25,000 rupees ($420),” Bourgeois said on Tuesday in the hard-hit Neelum Valley, northeast of Muzaffarabad, the ruined capital of Pakistani Kashmir. “So they thought if they started to rebuild they were not going to get the money,” he said.