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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 ...
The Doda district consists of areas drawn from the ancient principalities of Kishtwar and Bhadarwah, both of which became part of a district by the name of 'Udhampur' in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. [13] The district of Doda in Jammu and Kashmir has a long history intertwined with legends and stories of various rulers and dynasties.
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 ...
The Japan News likewise reported that the video shows dashcam footage of shaking in Ishikawa, a prefecture in Japan, from the 7.5-magnitude Noto Peninsula earthquake on New Year's Day 2024.
Sindh, Punjab and Azad Jammu & Kashmir provinces lie on the north-western edge of the Indian plate in South Asia. Hence this region is prone to violent earthquakes , as the two tectonic plates collide.
A U.S. Army soldier gives a young Pakistani Kashmiri girl a drink of water as they are airlifted from Muzaffarabad to Islamabad. The international response to the 2005 Kashmir earthquake was widespread and immediate, as many countries, international organizations and non-governmental organizations offered an abundance of relief aid to the affected regions − particularly Pakistan, which was ...
The main earthquake occurred on 26 October 2015 at 13:39 AFT (14:09 PKT, 14:39 IST, 09:09 UTC) [1] [2] at a depth of approximately 231.0 km, with its epicenter approximately 82 km southeast of Feyzabad, Afghanistan. The USGS initially measured the quake's magnitude at 7.7, then revised it down to 7.6 and later to 7.5.
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 ]