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 ...

Kashmir earthquake of 2005, disastrous earthquake that occurred on October 8, 2005, in the Pakistan-administered portion of the Kashmir region known as Azad Kashmir and the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. It had a magnitude of 7.6 and also affected adjacent parts of India and Afghanistan.

Oct 22, 2008 · The Kashmir earthquake killed nearly 75,000 people, injured more than 100,000 people, and destroyed 3 million homes. Two towns that straddled the newly exposed fault suffered the most damage: Muzaffarabad and Balakot. In addition, the earthquake generated massive landslides that buried entire towns.

Oct 7, 2015 · The 8 October 2005 earthquake in Kashmir is remembered as one of the worst natural disasters in South Asia. The BBC's Shahzeb Jillani was among the first journalists to report from the...

Dec 28, 2020 · The Kashmir earthquake killed nearly 75,000 people, injured more than 100,000 people, and destroyed 3 million homes. Two towns that straddled the newly exposed fault suffered the most damage: Muzaffarabad and Balakot. In addition, the earthquake generated massive landslides that buried entire towns.

Nov 9, 2009 · On October 8, 2005, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook the Kashmir region (a disputed territory controlled in part by Pakistan and India), along with sections of Pakistan, India and...

Oct 8, 2024 · What were the consequences of the Kashmir earthquake? The earthquake resulted in 87,351 deaths. Homes, infrastructure, and buildings were severely damaged or collapsed.

Oct 8, 2005 · The Kashmir earthquake (also known as the South Asian earthquake or the Great Pakistan earthquake) of 2005, designates a major earthquake with its epicenter in the Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The earthquake occurred at 08:50:38 Pakistan Standard Time (03:50:38 UTC) on October 8, 2005.

On October 8, 2005, at 08:50 am local time, a Mw7.6 earthquake struck the Kashmiri region of Paki-stan and India, causing widespread destruction in Pakistan’s Azad Jum-mu and Kashmir (AJK) and North-west Frontier Provinces (NWFP), and in India’s western and southern Kashmir—an area of 30,000 km2 (see Figure 1).

On October 8, 2005, at 8:50 a.m. lo-cal time, a magnitude Mw = 7.6 earth-quake struck the Himalayan region of northern Pakistan and Kashmir. The earthquake epicenter was located ap-proximately 9 km north northeast of the city of Muzaffarabad, the capital of the Pakistani-administered part of Kashmir, known as Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK). Figure 1.