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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 ...
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 following is a list of major earthquakes which have occurred in India, ... Kashmir 4.8 M s: Few Limited damage / doublet [34] 1980-08-23 Kashmir 4.9 M s: 15 40
The quake had a 5.4 magnitude and its epicenter was in Doda, a small town in India-controlled Jammu and Kashmir, according to India’s National Center for Seismology.
Tremors from the earthquake were felt across parts of North India, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and the National Capital Region. [30] [31] Disruptions of electricity and mobile services occurred in some parts of Jammu and Kashmir.
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]
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Urdu: آزاد جموں و کشمیر, romanized: Āzād Jammū̃ o Kaśmīr ⓘ, lit. 'Free Jammu and Kashmir'), [6] abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir (/ ˌ ɑː z æ d k æ ʃ ˈ m ɪər / AH-zad kash-MEER), [7] is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entity [8] and constituting the western portion of the ...
Muzaffarabad (/ ˌ m ʊ z ə ˌ f æ r ə ˈ b æ d /; [5] Urdu: مُظَفَّر آباد, IPA: [mʊzəffərɑːbɑːd]) is a city in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. [1] It is the largest city and the capital of Azad Kashmir, which is a Pakistani-administered administrative territory.