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The 2019 Kashmir earthquake struck regions of Pakistan with an epicentre in Azad Kashmir [3] on 24 September at 16:02 local time (11:02 UTC). It had a magnitude of 5.4 M ww and a maximum felt intensity of VII ( Very strong ) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale [ 4 ] or VIII ( Heavily damaging ) on the European macroseismic scale . [ 5 ]
Deadliest earthquake in South Asia, epicentre centred on the Jhelum Fault Zone. 2004-02-14: Battagram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 5.5 M w: VIII 24 63 2002-11-02: Battagram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 5.4 M w 6.3 M w: VIII 41 168 Doublet 1997-02-27: Balochistan: 7.0 M w: VIII 57 1992-05-20: Kohat Division, North West Frontier: 6.0 M w: VII 36 100 Moderate [14 ...
Several secondary low-intensity earthquakes and aftershocks followed over the next few weeks. [24] [25] [26] At least 56 buildings had collapsed and 369 others were damaged in Kishtwar. [27] Dozens of buildings including a hospital were also damaged in Bhaderwah. [28] At least five people were injured and hundreds were displaced. [29] [30]
The state typically experiences between 10 and 20 earthquakes above magnitude 2.0 each year, said Andy Newman, a professor of geophysics at Georgia Tech. As for what’s behind the recent shakes ...
Chenab Valley is a loosely-defined controversial term [a] sometimes used to refer to parts of the Jammu Division of Jammu and Kashmir, India.The term is used to refer to the present-day districts of Doda, Kishtwar, Ramban, and, at times, Reasi and parts of Udhampur and Kathua. [6]
A magnitude 4 earthquake rattled Southern California before dawn Sunday morning — the strongest in a series of modest earthquakes to strike near the Ontario International Airport in the last month.
Up to 66,900 people died from earthquakes in 2023, the highest death toll for earthquakes since 2010. At least 59,488 people died in the Turkey–Syria doublets of February, which dominated world headlines because of its extensive devastation; the first mainshock was also the largest earthquake of the year at M w 7.8.
An earthquake struck Pakistan's province of Balochistan near the city of Harnai on 7 October 2021. [2] [3] The moment magnitude 5.9 M ww quake struck in the early morning at 03:01 local time, killing at least 42 people and injuring 300 others. [4] The earthquake occurred just one day before the anniversary of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake.