Zware aardbeving treft Pakistan

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Op dinsdag 24 september 2013 16:54 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Dat zou wat zijn ? Lijkt me zelf ook wat sterk, maar who knows wat er volgt...

50 doden wordt inmiddels gemeld

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Op dinsdag 24 september 2013 17:03 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Zon waterverplaatsing moet dan haast ook een lokale tsunami hebben voortgebracht lijkt me

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Update 16:37 UTC : Communication systems are still disrupted and army helicopters are flying assistance teams to the earthquake hit area. Below a picture of Gwadar Island as it was seen after the earthquake today

Update 16:26 UTC : The well informed Indian news-site Outlook India writes : Forty people were killed and dozens injured when a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit southwestern Pakistan today, with officials saying casualties could increase near the epicentre in a remote area in Balochistan.
Forty deaths were reported from quake-hit areas of Awaran district, chief military spokesman Maj Gen Asim Bajwa said in a message posted on Twitter. Other officials were quoted by news channels as saying that dozens were injured when mud-brick houses collapsed in Awaran and Khuzdar areas of Balochistan province. Six bodies were found in Awaran bazar and four more recovered in far flung villages of the district, said Deputy Commissioner Abdul Rasheed Baloch. “I fear more people are trapped inside collapsed houses,” he said.
Ghulam Baloch, a local administration official from Khuzdar, said, “Houses and shops have collapsed and the casualties could increase. An emergency has been declared in Awaran and some other parts of Balochistan.”

Update 17:37 UTC : Based on many local reports we can now confirm that at least 150 people have been killed. SAR work is continuing and the death toll will almost certainly increase the following hours.
Update 17:05 UTC : More and more reports in Urdu are citing +150 fatalities. Iran Urdu Radio reports also that 150 people have died . Several aftershocks (some strong) have been felt . Only Pakistan reports fatalities. We maintain the 50 fatalities in our title because we want

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Op dinsdag 24 september 2013 19:54 schreef bwt het volgende:
is kennelijk niet belangrijk genoeg.
De toenaderingen van Iran naar de USA is kennelijk belangrijker.

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Op dinsdag 24 september 2013 17:03 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Zon waterverplaatsing moet dan haast ook een lokale tsunami hebben voortgebracht lijkt me

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Dodental aardbeving Pakistan blijft oplopen

Het dodental van de zware aardbeving in het zuidwesten van Pakistan is opgelopen tot zeker 208.

Dat bleek na het doorzoeken van honderden ingestorte huizen in een afgelegen, bergachtig gebied in de provincie Belochistan, meldde de plaatsvervangend commissaris van het gebied woensdag.

''We zijn begonnen met de doden te begraven'', zei Abdul Rasheed Gogazai. Hij voegde eraan toe dat er minstens 373 mensen gewond zijn geraakt door de beving, die een kracht had van circa 7,8 op de schaal van Richter.

Het epicentrum bevond zich ruim tweehonderd kilometer ten zuiden van de stad Dalbandin.

Enkele minuten na de eerste zware beving volgde iets noordelijker nog een naschok van 5.9 op de schaal van Richter.

Aardbevingsinstituut USGS gaf meteen 'code rood' af, wat inhoudt dat het verwachte aantal dodelijke slachtoffers boven de duizend uitkomt.

De aardbeving gebeurde dinsdagmiddag rond half 5 lokale tijd (half 2 Nederlandse tijd). Volgens functionarissen zijn tientallen woningen verwoest, mede door naschokken. Het gaat vooral om woningen van leem. Het leger heeft circa tweehonderd militairen ingezet om hulp te bieden in de regio.

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More than 200 killed in Pakistan's 7.7 quake

The scale of the territory involved is daunting. Awaran district has an estimated population of around 300,000, scattered over an area of more than 21,000 square kilometres.

More than 60,000 people live within 50 kilometres of the epicentre, according to the UN disaster agency, mostly in easily collapsed mud homes.

"We have been busy in rescue efforts for the whole night and fear we will recover more dead bodies from under the rubble during the daylight,'' said a senior official in Awaran, Abdul Rasheed Baluch.

"Around 90 per cent of houses in the district have been destroyed. Almost all the mud houses have collapsed.''

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Op dinsdag 24 september 2013 13:53 schreef Janneke141 het volgende:
Is ie al opgeeist?

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Update 12:27 UTC : Some more information about the new Gwadar island who was shaped during the shaking of the earthquake. The new island is probably a “mud volcano”, pushed upwards by methane gas during the violent shaking of the earthquake. Historic facts are mentioning a same island forming after a 1945 earthquake. Scientists are surprised that such activity occurred more than 400 kilometers from the epicenter. The island is not a normal island but a huge amount of mud that will be eroded by waves and weather and will again disappear in the ocean like it also did in 1945.

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Important Update 12:04 UTC : The number we have given below only represents the counted fatalities in the Awaran district. Another 42 bodies have been reported from the Kech district. Statistically, this means that the Awaran, Pakistan earthquake is sadly enough the deadliest earthquake since the Van earthquake (Turkey) on October 23, 2011.
Update 11:59 UTC : The Pakistani newspaper TheNews reports that : The death toll in Balochistan from the powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck southwest Pakistan has risen to 285 after twenty bodies of madrassa students were recovered from Awaran.