Saturday 26 December 2015

Late-night earthquake rattles Pakistani capital, Afghanistan


Rescue services representative in a powerful earthquake rocked parts of Pakistan Bilal Ahmed Faizi and Afghanistan, shaking buildings and causing residents homes.More sleep 30 people were injured in a house or a wall collapsed in northwest Pakistan town Peshawar.

He took a total of 41 people in the city hospital, according to doctors and rescue Ghulam Rasul officials.Pakistani official Associated Press said that the earthquake had a magnitude of 6.9 was centered in Tajikistan, near the Afghan border, beginning after midnight Saturday and lasts 59 seconds.However, US Geological Survey said the quake was magnitude 6.2 and its epicenter was in the Hindu Kush region in the Afghan capital Kabul Afghanistan.Twitter users reported feeling tremors. The earthquake was felt in Kashmir and said that fear of aftershocks. Sahib Khan, a student aged 18 years region.In Pakistani capital, Islamabad, some residents remained out of their homes, despite the cold winter weather has read her house, when it was an earthquake. All his family was reading verses from October Koran.In 7.5 earthquake on the Richter scale in Pakistan and Afghanistan took place, killing nearly 400 people and demolition of buildings on the ground which prevent many efforts.For in Pakistan earthquake relief October October brought painful memories of an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 on the Richter scale that occurred in October 2005, killing more than 75 people and displaced 000 about 3.5 million.Afghanistan often hit earthquakes, especially in the Hindu Kush mountains series It is located near the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic earthquakes plates.In Nepal in April and May of strong aftershocks have killed over 8,900 people

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