Trapped Earthquake (Kashmir, Pakistan 08.Oct.2005)

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The 2005 Kashmir earthquake was a major earthquake centered in Pakistan-administered Kashmir known as Azad Kashmir, near the city of Muzaffarabad, affecting Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It occurred at 08:52:37 Pakistan Standard Time (03:52:37 GMT) on 8 October 2005. It registered a moment magnitude of 7.6 making it similar in size to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the 1935 Quetta earthquake, the 2001 Gujarat earthquake, and the 2009 Sumatra earthquakes. As of 8 November, the government of Pakistan's official death toll was 75,000. The earthquake also affected countries in the surrounding region where tremors were felt in Tajikistan, western China; while officials say nearly 1,400 people also died in Indian-administered Kashmir and four people in Afghanistan. The severity of the damage caused by the earthquake is attributed to severe upthrust, coupled with poor construction.

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[Azamspazam91]

@P4KiiST4N Assalamu alaikum I was curious if you might know why there were 75,000 casualties in the Pakistan administered Kashmir and only 1,000 deaths in the Indian administered Kashmir. I understand that the epicenter of the earthquake was in the pakistan administered kashmir but the difference in number of casualties is just so stunning! there has to be another reason.

Does India have building safety codes for earthquakes in Kashmir? Building codes may have saved thousands of lives in pak

[P4KiiST4N]

I have managed to live past this and forget the past and not look back, but its not that easy... Surely Allah knows best.