Earthquake

[DhadiMania]

an earthquake has hit india, pakistan and afghanistan.

can sangat proivide any other details?

gustaphi maaf

[gupt_paapi]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake rocked South Asia on Saturday, killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. Several villages in northern Pakistan were buried in landslides, and casualties could be “massive,” a Pakistan army spokesman said.

Pakistan’s Geo television reported that Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao said hundreds were killed. The report could not be immediately confirmed.

“The damage and casualties could be massive and it is a national tragedy,” said Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, the Pakistani army’s chief spokesman. “The is the worst earthquake in recent times.”

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Pakistani army officials who flew over quake-hit areas reported seeing hundreds of flattened homes in northern villages, a government official in Islamabad said.

“Everybody seems to be affected in those villages,” the official told The Associated Press. He declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media.

One of the hardest-hit areas appeared to be Kashmir, the Himalayan territory divided between India and Pakistan. Both countries reported dozens of homes damaged, along with some schools, mosques and office buildings.

The Indian government said at least 16 people had been killed in its Jammu-Kashmir state. Pakistan’s Geo television said it had received unconfirmed reports that at least 25 people had died in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.

Police in India-controlled Kashmir said an infant and another person died there. India reported more than 200 people were injured in its part of Kashmir.

An 11-year-old girl was killed in Afghanistan.

'Major' earthquake

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 just six miles.

The USGS described the quake as “major.”

Dozens of people were feared trapped in the rubble of a 10-story apartment building in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. Rescue workers pulled two injured people from a huge pile of debris.

'I heard a big bang'

Qaiser Abbas, a receptionist in the damaged building in Islamabad, said he was sitting in his office when the building suddenly began to shake.

“After five seconds, I heard big sound, and then about 40 apartments collapsed,” he said.

The quake badly damaged a village near Balakot, a scenic town about 180 miles northeast of Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, regional police chief Ataullah Wazir said. Local media reports said many homes in Balakot had collapsed.

Four people were killed in the province’s Shangla district, said Bahar Karam, a relief official in the area.

In the Afghan capital, Kabul, residents fled their homes for fear they would collapse. Kabul is about 400 miles northwest of Islamabad.

U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Jerry O’Hara said the quake was also felt at Bagram, the main American base in Afghanistan, but he had no reports of damage there or at other bases around the country.

But an 11-year-old girl in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangahar province, which borders Pakistan, was crushed to death when a wall in her home collapsed, said Gafar Khan, a police official.

School in Pakistan damaged

Police in the Pakistani city of Lahore said at least eight people were injured and four shops were damaged. The earthquake also damaged part of a school in Rawalpindi, a city near Islamabad, injuring at least two girls.

In Islamabad, buildings shook and walls swayed for about a minute. Panicked people ran out of their homes and offices in many cities. Slight tremors continued afterward.

The quake also caused panic in Rawalpindi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta near the Afghan border, as well as the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir, which is divided between India and Pakistan.

At least 100 houses were damaged in India’s Jammu-Kashmir state, including a dozen houses in Srinagar, the summer capital, said B.B. Vyas, a senior administration official.

“It was one of the most intense earthquakes felt in the Srinagar region in at least two decades,” said G.K. Mohanty, an official in the meteorological office in Srinagar.

Two people, including a nine-month-old baby, were killed when the walls of their homes collapsed, said a police officer in Srinagar. Telephone lines were down across the state, and power had been switched off in the state as a precaution, he said. Bridges had developed cracks, but traffic was passing over them.

The tremor was felt in 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.

Taken from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9626146/

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When I saw this in the news, I was thinking, people are scared of earthquakes and desasters, but don't seem to be scared of God, the One who does this with a twinkling of an eye!!!!

[Dhan Teri Sikhi]

Waheguru Waheguru

[Sikh_Kuri]

Did this happen 2day?

[WGJKKWGJKF]

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Yep happened today.-Look at star news (channel 803)

By the way it hit Amritsar too, does anyone no more information on where it hit In Amritsar, the damage etc?

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

[Raju]

It affected Amritsar and Gurdaspur, in Amritsar a few shops were burnt down due to electric cables collapsing on those shops. A few kuccha houses and old houses also came down.

[Sikh_Kuri]

I just saw some movie/pictures on Star News (803) in Jallandhar and chandigarh showing a fan moving and a chandelier moving !

Vaheguru

[singh_sandhu]

Vaheguru Vaheguru Vaheguru

KALJUG !

[ghatak]

waheguru saareyaan nu bakshe

[simmal tree]

According to CNN The confirmed death toll stands at 1,337.