2008 Pakistan earthquake
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Epicenter of the earthquake of October 28, 2008
The earthquake in Pakistan in 2008 with a magnitude of 6.4 Mw in the province of Balochistan took place on 29 October 2008, at 04:09 clock local time ( 23:09 UTC on 28 October). According to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake occurred 60 km north of Quetta and 185 km southeast of the Afghan city of Kandahar at a depth of 15 km.
Tectonic background
Earthquakes and active faults in the western and northern Pakistan and adjacent parts of Afghanistan are a result of the northward movement of the Indian plate collides with a speed of about 40 mm per year with the Eurasian plate. The Indian plate pushes on the northern edge of the subcontinent under the Eurasian plate, thus causing the elevation of the highest mountain ranges of the world, namely the Himalayas, the Karakoram, the Pamir and the Hindu Kush. West and south of the deformation front of the Himalayas, the relative movement of the two plates is oblique, resulting in this field to the usual slip faults, normal faults, as well as combinations of both.
The emission of seismic energy in the earthquake of 28 October suggests that the course was primarily a strike-slip fault at this event. Due to the seismological analysis of the recorded seismograms taking into account the tectonic framework is a left - lateral offset of a northeast trending fault the probable hearth process.
The quake of 28 October took place in the Sulaiman Fault, which arose in the tertiary folding zone in which in geologically recent times, sedimentary rock was folded and pressed by the force of the collision of the Indian and Eurasian land masses. It is located about 80 km east of the approximately 650 km long Chaman Fault. According to the United States Geological Survey, this takes up a substantial part of the pressure of the two plates. The occurrence of the earthquake suggests that further minor disturbances below the fold zone exist, taking a part of the forces that occur in the area of mutual motion between India and Eurasia.
The earthquake and the aftershocks occurred about 50 km northeast of the region that was most affected by an earthquake on 30 May 1935. At that time, about 30,000 people were killed and Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, was razed to the ground. This quake occurred as a result of strike-slip on a northeast trending fault and had a magnitude of 7.6 MW.
Persons and property
At least 215 people were killed by the earthquake, more than 200 were injured, and 120,000 were left homeless.
Particulars
Most of the victims come from two villages on the outskirts of Ziarat. This area was severely affected by landslides affected that caused the earthquake. Hundreds of buildings were damaged.
The tremors were in Quetta, Ziarat, Pishin, Qila Abdullah, Mastung, Sibi, Bolan felt in the district as well as in Kuchlak and Loralai.
Reactions
The Pakistani government sent helicopters and soldiers to the disaster area to help those affected. Some of those affected criticized, however, that government help was inadequate.