Earthquake Reports
Earthquake victims in Lahore leave for AJK and NWFP
Saba Sadiq, adviser to the Punjab chief minister on
She also addressed the farewell ceremony, saying the Punjab had again played a role in helping people and had hosted the victims for four months. She said each family was also given three months of rations including flour, rice, oil, sugar, tea, milk powder, grains, pulses and spices. She also said every victim was given Rs 1,000.
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.
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Karachi: on top of EarthQuake Fault Lines
“While Karachi lies close to a major fault line, it is situated on or close to four minor faults. The first is called the Allah Bund fault and it passes through the coastal town of Shah Bundar, the area around Pakistan Steel Mills and runs through eastern parts of the city ending near Cape Monz. Another fault lies in the Rann of Kutch near Sindh’s southeastern border with India. The third is called the Pubb fault which lies near the Mekran coast west of the city while a fourth is located in Dadu district on the northern boundary of Karachi.”
Earthquake Crevasse in Kashmir Swallows Public Library
The only public library in the area of
Nuzhat Rahman, head of acquisitions for the
Rawalakot: city of the homeless
Saturday’s devastating earthquake has hit the residents of Azad Kashmir in many ways. Unlike Muzzafarabad and Bagh districts, the disaster has stolen shelter virtually from every single inhabitant of Rawalakot city.
Named by a British traveller in the late 19th century as the Pearly Valley, Rawalakot city does not seem to wear the look of a devastated place at the outset. However, the destruction is not as dramatic and obvious as it is in Muzaffarabad district or elsewhere in northern Pakistan. But a visit to the city centre and the residential areas testifies that the tremors were as deadly as they could be, regardless of the fact that the impact came in a different shape.
One thousand hospitals in Pakistan destroyed in quake: UN
About one thousand hospitals were “completely destroyed” in the earthquake in Pakistan, severely hampering urgent medical treatment for thousands of injured people, the United Nations said Tuesday.
The estimate was contained in a UN situation report on the international aid operation following the quake that devastated areas north of the capital Islamabad on Saturday, as well as parts of northern India and Afghanistan.
“That’s just Pakistan. It’s an estimate made by our coordination office from information collected on the ground,” Elisabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman for the UN’s humanitarian coordination office (OCHA), told.
Quetta: Kallat jolts with minor quake
Some low intensity earthquake jolts were observed in Kallat district of Quetta today.
According to Met office, Quetta, the jolts were experienced in Sorab area of Kallat district, however no casualties have been reported yet.
Source: The News
Muzaffarabad is a ghost town from dark ages
With entire suburban population heading to the town in hope of relief, more danger of disease is at hand with some 20,000 bodies decaying underneath the rubble and over countless injured living in the worst unhygienic conditions.
As if this was not enough, the migrant inhabitants and the worried relatives are rushing back after the opening of the roads to the place once called