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Zalzala Koh (Urdu: زلزلہ کوہ, Earthquake Mountain) or Zalzala Jazeera (Urdu: زلزلہ جزیرہ, Earthquake Island) was a small island off the coast of the port city of Gwadar in Balochistan province of Pakistan which appeared on 24 September 2013 just hours after a powerful earthquake in Blochistan on that day.
While most of Pakistan is located on the Indian Plate, Koh-i-Sultan is situated on the Eurasian Plate. Koh-i-Sultan is a volcano in Balochistan, Pakistan.It is part of the tectonic belt formed by the collision of the Eurasian Plate and Indian Plate: specifically, a segment influenced by the subduction of the Arabian plate beneath the Asian plate and forming a volcanic arc which includes the ...
As of 2023, Pakistan has 37 national parks (Urdu: پاکستان کے نیشنل پارک). [1] In 2012, 25 of these were under supervision of respective provincial governments and remaining were in private care. [2] Only some of these are under the conservation scope of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The Thal desert is a subtropical sandy region with severe climatic conditions that are prone to temperature extremes. [17] Approximately 50% of the region sees hyper-arid climatic conditions (annual rainfall less than 200mm) and the remaining half sees semi-arid climatic conditions (annual rainfall between 200mm and 500mm). [18]
Hingol National Park or Hungol National Park (Urdu: ہنگول نیشنل پارک) is one of the largest national parks in Pakistan, located in the Makran coastal region. . The park covers an area of about 6,100 square kilometres (2,400 sq mi) and is located 190 km from Karachi in the three districts of Gwadar, Lasbela and Awaran in Balochis
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates; Koh-i-Sultan (Extinct magmatic): Malan Island (Mud volcano): Neza e Sultan (Extinct magmatic): Jebel e Ghurab (Mud volcano) ...
This diverse composition of the country's fauna is associated with its location in the transitional zone between two major zoogeographical regions, the Palearctic, and the Oriental. [2] The northern regions of Pakistan, which include Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit Baltistan include portions of two biodiversity hotspot , Mountains of Central Asia ...
Mountain ranges in Northern Pakistan as seen from space Karakoram range as seen from International Space Station. Satellite image of a part of the Sulaiman Range. Labelled mountain ranges of Pakistan on map, photograph by NASA.