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State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) Azad Jammu & Kashmir is an autonomous authority mandated to act as leading agency in disaster management, its mitigation and preparedness in Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan. Azad Jammu & Kashmir is highly prone to multiple hazards and has experienced worst disasters situation due to earthquake ...
An earthquake occurred at 08:50:39 Pakistan Standard Time on 8 October 2005 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, a territory under Pakistan. Its epicenter was 19 km northeast of the city of Muzaffarabad , and 90 km north north-east of Islamabad , the capital city of Pakistan, and also affected nearby Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and some areas of Jammu ...
2010-10-10 Haripur, Northwest Frontier Province: 5.2 M w V 1 15 Moderate damage [13] 2008-10-29: Ziarat District, Balochistan: 6.4 M w: 215 200 2005-10-08: Azad Kashmir, Balakot: 7.6 M w: XI 86,000–87,351 69,000–75,266 Extreme damage in Azad Kashmir, Balakot town almost completely destroyed and Muzaffarabad suffering heaviest number of ...
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 ]
A viral video shared on X purports to show a recent 7.0-magnitude earthquake that occurred in California. Verdict: False The claim is false, as the video shows an April 2024 earthquake that struck ...
The reason for the intensity and high frequency of earthquakes is the Indian plate driving into Asia at a rate of approximately 47 mm/year. [1] The following is a list of major earthquakes which have occurred in India , including those with epicentres outside India that caused significant damage or casualties in the country.
A post shared on social media purportedly shows a video of a recent earthquake that hit Tibet. Facebook/Screenshot Verdict: False The video is from 2024 in Japan. Fact Check: Firefighters in Los ...
According to the Geological Survey, Friday's 4.8 magnitude earthquake was the strongest to hit New Jersey in nearly 250 years. But Scott Brandenberg, a professor of civil and environmental ...