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Police and rescue workers at the site of a building that collapsed in Islamabad.




THIS IS MARGALLA TOWERS F-10 SECTOR ISLAMABAD.
A 10 STORY BUILDING WHERE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WERE LIVING AND DUE TO HOLIDAY IN SCHOOLS COZ TODAY IS SATURDAY ALMOST ALL OF CHILDREN WERE AT HOMES. SO WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE THERE.... THESE ARE LIVING APARTMENTS...at the time of earth quake almost 200 people where inside






Toll rises in major Pakistan quake

Saturday, October 8, 2005; Posted: 4:00 a.m. EDT (08:00 GMT)


(CNN) -- At least 19 people were killed and hundreds more injured when a magnitude 7.6 earthquake centered near Islamabad, Pakistan, jolted residents of three countries as far as 400 miles away.

Frantic efforts to rescue survivors were underway in Islamabad, where an apartment building collapsed.

Elsewhere in Pakistan, preliminary reports indicate "widespread damage," particularly in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and the country's northern area, Maj. Gen. Shauket Sultan, Pakistani army spokesman, told CNN.

But communication disruptions in those areas meant information was sketchy, he said. A helicopter rescue operation was launched.

Fourteen of those killed were in Pakistan, including a girl killed when her school was damaged in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. Four others died in Manshera and nine in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir and the country's northern region, authorities said.

Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir reported five deaths -- three in the town of Baramulla and two in Srinagar. Also, about 150 people have gone to Srinagar hospitals with a combination of physical injuries and shock, police said. Nearly 200 houses in the region have been damaged by the quake.

Initial reports from Islamabad indicate that a two-block area was damaged, Pakistani Information Minister Shaikh Rashid Ahmad told CNN.

Video footage from Pakistani television showed crowds of people climbing on the rubble of the collapsed apartment building and attempting to free those trapped under large concrete slabs. Some of the injured were carried away on stretchers.

The temblor's epicenter was 60 miles (about 100 kilometers) north-northeast of Islamabad and more than six miles below the Earth's surface, according to the Web site of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center.

The quake, which struck about 8:50 a.m. local time (11:50 p.m. Friday EDT, 3.50 a.m. Saturday GMT), was believed to be the strongest in Pakistan in nearly 20 years. Many citizens were still in their beds at the time.

"My wife and I grabbed our daughter and ran outside immediately," Danny Kemp, deputy Islamabad bureau chief for Agence France-Presse, told CNN. Pine trees and light poles were shaking, he said. "I've never felt anything like it."

The quake was "quite shallow," said David Applegate, senior science advisor for earthquake and geologic hazards for the U.S. Geological Survey. "That means the shaking is going to be very intense."

The fact that Islamabad was near the epicenter "means a fairly large urban population has experienced some strong shaking," Applegate said.

There have been some initial aftershocks, he said, "and we expect quite a number more" -- some in the 6-plus magnitude range. Those aftershocks could cause additional damage to structures already weakened by the first quake, he said.

The largest of those, which struck less than an hour after the strongest quake., was measured at magnitude 5.9, according to the National Earthquake Information Center. Others included two 5.6-magnitude quakes and one at 5.4 magnitude, the center said.

Pakistan traditionally has been an active region for earthquakes, Applegate said. Saturday's quake was a "thrust" earthquake, caused by friction between the Indian subcontinent as it pushes against Asia. Although it is the same kind of mechanism that creates tsunamis, the quake was centered far enough inland that there was no danger of a tsunami, he said.

Aftershocks could continue for several days before beginning to decrease, Applegate said.

The quake was also felt in India and Afghanistan. In New Delhi, some 400 miles from Islamabad, buildings swayed and furniture moved, causing widespread panic among residents, many of whom rushed into the streets.

A 7.6 quake is classified as "major," according to the scale used by the center.

Japan's Meteorological Agency judged the quake's magnitude as a 7.8.

In February 2004, a pair of earthquakes registering 5.5 and 5.4 magnitude, respectively, killed at least 21 people and injured dozens more and destroyed hundreds of homes built of mud, stone and timber in a rugged, mountainous area about 90 miles northwest of Islamabad.

In January 2001, some 30,000 people died in a 7.7 quake in western India.

CNN Senior International Correspondent Satinder Bindra, CNN Producer Syed Mohsin Naqvi and Journalist Mukhtar Ahmed in Srinagar contributed to this report.
Posted 08 Oct 2005

yes


but i know one thing

ALLAH KA AZAAB


GOD PLZZ FORGIVE US


kasii nain namaz-e-astagfar parii haii????
Posted 15 Oct 2005

main nay nahin parhi but inshallah aj hi parhti hoon
Posted 15 Oct 2005

someone said key we shouldn't take this as azaab...but this is imtehaan...
Posted 15 Oct 2005

ya u can say so... imtehan
Posted 15 Oct 2005

coz azab kuch logon pay nahin hota... but imtehan tu ya hum sab ka hai
Posted 15 Oct 2005

sahi
Posted 15 Oct 2005

bus dua hi karo
Posted 15 Oct 2005

~Fragi~ says
hum aur kar hee kiya saktey hain
Posted 15 Oct 2005

ya dua n madad
Posted 15 Oct 2005

~Fragi~ says
itney buland hosley dekh ker mujhe nahi lagta yeh kaum kissi kaum sey bhi kam hai
Posted 17 Oct 2005

hmmmm
Posted 17 Oct 2005

yup
Posted 20 Oct 2005

~Fragi~ says
but we need a proper direction
Posted 23 Oct 2005

haan sahee kaha lekin abhi bhi log apna fayda dekh rahe hain
Posted 23 Oct 2005

DesertBoy says
salam ppl....i am writing in this forum after a very long time i guess!!! .....khair...went to Mansehra where we pitched our base camp at Doraha.......we ventured to Balakot, Ogi, Batagram etc........and Balakot and Batagram were total flat lands where we had to pitch tents in which we had to accomodate four families per tent...due to extreme shortage.........i did try my best.....but there are so many villages and towns which we couldnt reach not beacuase they were inaccessible.....but because we would run out of supplies when we reach them......rastay main itnee tabahi huwi hai!!....u have to be there to see it to believe it!!.....watching it on TV is something.....being over there is something else....so many times i would sit in the base camp in a secluded spot and cry over what i saw.........there were two 5 year old girls...so cute one had an amputated leg and the other had a fractured arm....both were orphans now ....nothing was what it seemed........such a beautiful place.......a paradise in ruins!!.....Gods anger on all our sins has fallen on a select few who were unlucky to be in the path of His wrath..just a 15 second earth shake has killed 80000 and destroyed families forever!!.....and look at us.....i have come a changed man!!.....what will all of u learn........that little girl taught me one thing in her smile....after every disaster...the sun comes out....there is a new day and a dawn to a new life...which makes us human to come out fighting and live life as God intends us to live!!
Posted 25 Oct 2005

Allah sab par apna karam farmaye
Posted 25 Oct 2005

~Fragi~ says
ameen
Posted 04 Nov 2005

ameen
Posted 04 Nov 2005

~Fragi~ says
nice to see ya here
Posted 04 Nov 2005

thanx.. asal mein me 5 min ke liye ata hoon tu aik post kar ke chala jata hoon..tu itna agey piche topic dekta nahi

khair back to the topic..
Posted 04 Nov 2005

~Fragi~ says
yeah ..


is time kafi had tak relief efforts ho chukee hia .. but abhi aur bohat zaroorat hia
Posted 05 Nov 2005

Rapunzel says
right
Posted 05 Nov 2005

~Fragi~ says
sincere n true efforts are required
Posted 05 Nov 2005

nikama says
and money too
Posted 05 Nov 2005

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