Thursday, 3 October 2013

Earthquakes

Magnitude 5+ Earthquakes – Global

5.3 Earthquake hits Sikkim, India.

5.3 Earthquake hits the Ryukyu Islands off Japan.

5.0 Earthquake hits Vanuatu.

Pakistan

The 7.7 magnitude Balochistan quake toll jumps to 825. Conditions are desperate among the survivors and many are going without food, water and shelter, having lost everything in the quake. More than 30 villages, containing some 20,000 homes, were flattened across 15,400 square miles of the remindia,japan,vanuatumpakistan,ote Balochistan region. Dozens of bodies are being recovered every day from mud homes whose walls and beams have been reduced to dust and rubble.

The quake was Pakistan s deadliest since the Kashmir tremor of 2005 which killed 73,000. The toll is expected to rise further as rescue teams dig through the rubble of countless flattened mud-brick homes.

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