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Moderate quake jolts Islamabad |
2006-03-20 |
A moderate earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale jolted Islamabad and parts of NWFP on Sunday but there were no immediate reports of damage, officials said. "It was a moderate intensity earthquake," said the chief of the Seismological Department Chaudhry Qamaruz Zaman. He said it was an aftershock of the massive October 8 quake that killed more than 73,000 people in the country. The shocks were felt at 7:49am in Islamabad and in Balakot and also in Mansehra and Swat districts, the officials said. The epicentre was 200 kilometres northeast of Peshawar. Two low intensity aftershocks, measuring 4.0 and 4.1, were felt later at 8:18am and 8:21am respectively, officials said. |
Posted by:Fred |
#9 Listen up, or your firstborn are next. |
Posted by: gromgoru 2006-03-20 22:15 |
#8 Moderate quake kills moderata Muslim. Then Ima theenin' we need a whole messa radical quakes. |
Posted by: Zenster 2006-03-20 16:38 |
#7 Moderate quake kills moderata Muslim. |
Posted by: JFM 2006-03-20 15:38 |
#6 I like "Flattened under concrete" I've seen their construction first hand and close up, very weak. (Father was a Civil Engineer, some 'larnin rubbed off.) |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-03-20 12:37 |
#5 I like Loonie Tooner. |
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-03-20 10:56 |
#4 Beat me to it CF9 - so what would the equivalent of the richter scale be for the holey men of is-slum? I like Spittle scale. |
Posted by: Admiral Allan Ackbar 2006-03-20 09:40 |
#3 Moderitt quakes fer modritt mooselimbs |
Posted by: Admiral Allan Ackbar 2006-03-20 09:34 |
#2 Thank goodness it wasn't one of those fundamentalist quakes. The moderate quakes are much easier to get along with. |
Posted by: Chinter Flarong9283 2006-03-20 09:33 |
#1 Damn puffins nesting in McHalliburton HAARP telluric accumulator No6 again... |
Posted by: Admiral Allan Ackbar 2006-03-20 09:33 |