Magnitude 7.4 - SOUTHWESTERN PAKISTAN

[irishspirit]

A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 has hit southwest Pakistan, the US Geological Survey says.

The quake was centred about 34 miles west of Dalbandin.


http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Major-Earthquake-Measuring-74-Hits-Southwest-Pakistan-Near-Dalbandin/Article/201101315898383?lpos=World_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15898383_Major_Earthquake_Measuring_7.4_Hits_Southwest_Pakistan_Near_Dalbandin


I know that we have the quake thread going on, but this one is big and should be there to be seen. I am hearing reports that this was felt as far away as Dubai .


I am trying to source the location and check on the areas fror population and so forth.


If it turns out normal, it can then be merged with the other thread?

[irishspirit]

10km deep I am hearing, which is 6 odd miles, very shallow indded if true.

[irishspirit]

n Karachi, there are reports that tremors caused buildings to shake but the scale of the damage is not yet known. Quakes often rattle the region. In 2005, one measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale killed about 80,000 people in northwestern Pakistan and Kashmir and left more than three million homeless.


same link

[Rocky_Shorz]

I always add comments on the quake info released by USGS instead of starting new...

maybe they can just merge this onto it...

it has only been a few years since 80,000 people died from a quake just slightly higher than this one in the same area...

I'm still looking for local reporting

[irishspirit]

Rocky,

I am talking with a friend at the minute who has said that there is normally some kind of movement weeks/days leading up to something this size, he has said that the region has had little to none thus far.

I am sourcuing local info from local news as we speak.

[Rocky_Shorz]

I saw one translation that several hundred are injured but reports hadn't even started coming in yet from around the area

[irishspirit]

Rocky, what is scary is the fact that there was no fore shcoks, and worse still no after shocks thus far, I just hope and pray that this is not a fore shock.

[irishspirit]

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/read/index.php?pageid=seism_read&rid=200309

[irishspirit]

depth has just been revised to 52 miles

thank god

[Rocky_Shorz]

The earthquake struck some 200 miles southwest of Quetta, the provincial capital and alleged headquarters of the main faction of Taliban leaders, which is referred to as “the Quetta Shura" and led by Mullah Omar.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former top US commander in Afghanistan, wrote in his 2009 war assessment for President Obama that “at the operational level, the Quetta Shura conducts a formal campaign review each winter, after which Mullah Omar announces his guidance and intent for the coming year.”

Far from ousting the shura (council), operatives of Pakistan’s spy agency have been attending their meetings, according to a June 2010 report by Matt Waldman published by an affiliate of the London School of Economics. The Pakistani military called the report “rubbish.”

Bullseye... (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2011/0119/Pakistan-earthquake-hits-Afghan-Taliban-haven)

[Rocky_Shorz]

this is the location that they set off the underground nuke and at the end of this clip mentions Dalbandin which was an air base for the afghan war...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fA6MaXxdtQ


Currently the United States Marine Corps use Dalbandin as a base for operations into Afghanistan...



so Omar and the US Marines are close enough to wave...

It just keeps getting more and more interesting...

Where's Henry... ;)