A ninth century earthquake-induced landslide and flood in the Kashmir Valley, and earthquake damage to Kashmir's Medieval temples. Bull. Earthq. Eng., 1-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10518-013-9504-x.Bilham, R., and B. S. Bali (2013), A ninth century earthquake-induced landslide ...
200,000 The deaths resulting from this offshore quake actually were caused by a tsunami originating in the Indian Ocean that, in addition to killing more than 150,000 in Indonesia, killed people as far away as Sri Lanka and Somalia. 2005 Azad Kashmir (Pakistani-administered Kashmir) 7.6 VII...
Cloze. An earthquake hit Kashmir on Oct.8, 2005.It took some 75000 lives, 1 130000 and left nearly 3.5 million without food, jobs or homes. 2 overnight, scores of tent villages bloomed 3 the region, tended by international aid organizations, militar
On October 8,2005,a huge earthquake took place in Kashmir(克什米尔地区).Lots of buildings began to fall down.Many people had no time to run out of their houses and buried under the build-ings. Soon many people lost their parents, children, sisters and brothers. They lost their homes and...
Northern, Western as well as Southern Pakistan, Kashmir and Northern India and Afghanistan are along zones of high seismic activity. Most of the earthquakes in Pakistan occur in the north and western regions, along the boundary of the Indian tectonic plate with the Iranian and Afghan micro-...
Recent earthquakes such as the 7.9 magnitude 2008 Sichuan Earthquake and the 7.6 magnitude 2005 Kashmir Earthquake demonstrate that many communities do not have earthquake-resistant schools. Many of the schools that collapse and kill children are modern and are sometimes situated near older buildings th...
(M= 4) can trigger landslides, and of course, the number and geographic distribution of landslides increases substantially for earthquakes of larger magnitude. Earthquake-triggered landslides can be extremely devastating as highlighted by the Kashmir earthquake in 2005 (Owen et al.,2008). During the...
Great earthquakes are likely to have occurred in Nepal in the thirteenth century and in Kashmir in the mid-16th century. Some destroyed vast regions along the front of the range. Table 4.4. Nineteenth-Century Himalayan Earthquakes YearLocationMagnitudeCasualties 1819 Kutch 7.7±0.2 2,000 1833 ...
On the basis of the textual research on the historical earthquake data and the field investigation of Wudu earthquake occurred in 186 B.C., we suggest that the earthquake parameters drawn from the present earthquake catalogs are not definite and amendments should be made. The heavily-damaged area...
ISLAMABAD, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Muhammad Zohaib, 6, plays with his two brothers in the courtyard of his house every day after coming back from school in Mirpur district of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. On Tuesday afternoon, the boys were engaged in their usual play routine when a house wal...