Pakistan / Kashmir earthquakes - 20K plus Dead _ 4 Mn homeless

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A magnitude 7.6 earthquake IN PAKISTAN has occurred at:
34.43N 73.54E Depth 10km Sat Oct 8 03:50:38 2005 UTC
Location with respect to nearby cities:
95 km (60 miles) NNE of ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (pop 524,000)
115 km (70 miles) ESE of Mingaora, Pakistan (pop 174,000)
125 km (75 miles) WNW of Srinagar, Kashmir (pop 894,000)
165 km (105 miles) N of Jhelum, Pakistan

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake IN PAKISTAN has occurred at:
34.82N 73.13E Depth 10km Sat Oct 8 04:26:12 2005 UTC

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake IN PAKISTAN has occurred at:
34.71N 73.11E Depth 10km Sat Oct 8 05:26:05 2005 UTC

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake IN PAKISTAN has occurred at:
34.75N 73.14E Depth 10km Sat Oct 8 05:19:48 2005 UTC

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake IN PAKISTAN has occurred at:
34.75N 73.14E Depth 10km Sat Oct 8 05:19:48 2005 UTC

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake IN PAKISTAN has occurred at:
34.52N 73.43E Depth 10km Sat Oct 8 06:15:25 2005 UTC

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake IN PAKISTAN has occurred at:
34.69N 73.07E Depth 16km Sat Oct 8 10:46:30 2005 UTC

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake IN PAKISTAN has occurred at:
34.70N 73.17E Depth 10km Sat Oct 8 11:33:33 2005 UTC

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake IN PAKISTAN has occurred at:
34.57N 73.18E Depth 10km Sat Oct 8 12:08:28 2005 UTC

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake IN PAKISTAN has occurred at:
34.79N 73.14E Depth 20km Sat Oct 8 12:25:22 2005 UTC

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake IN PAKISTAN has occurred at:
34.70N 73.18E Depth 10km Sat Oct 8 21:13:31 2005 UTC

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake IN PAKISTAN has occurred at:
34.68N 73.22E Depth 10km Sat Oct 8 21:45:10 2005 UTC

SUNDAY

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake IN PAKISTAN has occurred at:
34.56N 73.20E Depth 10km Sun Oct 9 07:09:19 2005 UTC

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake IN PAKISTAN has occurred at:
34.64N 73.15E Depth 10km Sun Oct 9 08:30:02 2005 UTC

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake IN PAKISTAN has occurred at:
34.27N 73.69E Depth 10km Sun Oct 9 19:20:37 2005 UTC

Earthquakes and active faults in northern Pakistan and adjacent parts of India and Afghanistan are the direct result of the Indian subcontinent moving northward at a rate of about 40 mm/yr (1.6 inches/yr) and colliding with the Eurasian continent. This collision is causing uplift that produces the highest mountain peaks in the world including the Himalayan, the Karakoram, the Pamir and the Hindu Kush ranges. As the Indian plate moves northward, it is being subducted or pushed beneath the Eurasian plate. Much of the compressional motion between these two colliding plates has been and continues to be accommodated by slip on a suite of major thrust faults that are at the Earth’s surface in the foothills of the mountains and dip northward beneath the ranges. These include the Main Frontal thrust, the Main Central thrust, the Main boundary thrust, and the Main Mantle thrust. These thrust faults have a sinuous trace as they arc across the foothills in northern India and into northern Pakistan. In detail, the modern active faults are actually a system of faults comprised of a number of individual fault traces. In the rugged mountainous terrain, it is difficult to identify and map all of the individual thrust faults, but the overall tectonic style of the modern deformation is clear in the area of the earthquake; north- and northeast-directed compression is producing thrust faulting. Near the town of Muzaffarabad, about 10 km southwest of the earthquake epicenter, active thrust faults that strike northwest-southeast have deformed and warped Pleistocene alluvial-fan surfaces into anticlinal ridges. The strike and dip direction of these thrust faults is compatible with the style of faulting indicated by the focal mechanism from the nearby M 7.6 earthquake. US Geological Survey. ©

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