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Massive Earthquake Hits Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Leaving At Least 12 Dead
Things are “shifting” in the Hindu Kush - literally. Just months after back-to-back quakes hit Nepal killing thousands, a powerful earthquake shook northeast Afghanistan on Monday. Tremors were felt in Pakistan and India as well.
The quake, which the USGS says measured 7.5, “centered 82 km (51 miles) southeast of Feyzabad in a remote area of Afghanistan in the Hindu Kush mountain range,” Reuters reports. At least 12 are reported dead in Pakistan thus far.
Here’s more from Bloomberg:
USGS sited the earthquake as being 42 miles west-northwest of Chitral, Pakistan. Chitral is located around 100 miles north of the city of Peshawar.
Pakistan's GEO TV reported people leaving their homes in Peshawar, Abbottabad and the capital Islamabad, with no reports of casualties so far.
Pakistan's AAJ TV said at least one building collapsed in Peshawar.
Residents of Delhi said tremors were felt in the Indian capital at 2:44 p.m. local time. The India Meteorological Department said the earthquake was at a depth of 118 miles (190km).
And here are a few first-hand accounts gathered by NBC:
"I just felt it go up and down as if I was on a New York subway on a really rough ride. Everything was moving up and down. My lunch on the table was literally just popping up and down."
"There was no was way to go downstairs so we immediately climbed to the rooftop. It seemed the entire building is going to collapse. Women and children were crying and traffic was stopped on roads."
More color from CBS:
"There are reports of casualties and destruction" in some remote districts of Badakhshan, said the provincial director of the national disaster management authority, Abdullah Humayoon Dehqan.
Power was cut across much of the Afghan capital, where tremors were felt for around 45 seconds. Houses shook, walls cracked and cars rolled in the street. Officials in the capital could not be immediately reached as telephones appeared to be cut across the country.
In Pakistan, Zahid Rafiq, an official with the meteorological department, said the quake was felt across the country. In Islamabad, buildings shook and people poured into the streets in a panic, with many reciting verses from the Quran.
"I was praying when the massive earthquake rattled my home. I came out in a panic," said Munir Anwar, a resident of Liaquat Pur in the eastern Punjab province.
From India
Image from Indian Occ Punjab at Ludhiyana where a car comes out of a showroom after collapse #Earthquake pic.twitter.com/XyVi6ADVRG
— Farhan Khan Virk (@FarhanKVirk) October 26, 2015
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: People in Noida rush out of offices as #earthquake tremors rocked the capital pic.twitter.com/tn6py68MMM
— SkymetWeather (@SkymetWeather) October 26, 2015
From Pakistan
An image from Islamabad where cracks appeared in a complete building #Earthquake pic.twitter.com/7ZcjOxUcyU
— Farhan Khan Virk (@FarhanKVirk) October 26, 2015
JUST IN: Image from #Hunza where an entire glacier has come falling down. (via @FarhanKVirk) #earthquake pic.twitter.com/pgK3x9oDtu
— SkymetWeather (@SkymetWeather) October 26, 2015
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lucky us-ordered opium didnt took any damage
7.5-7.7 followed by an aftershock of 4.8 40 min later...
no report of whose (er, which) "fault" was it.
Fracking in Oklahoma is to blame. Don't deny the science. </sarc>
My Tata!!!
Cue Pat Robertson to tell us that it's because they didn't love Jesus in 3....2....
Very interresting that it was 7.7 and that it occurred on a planetary alignment of biblical significants.
666 days till solar eclipse on 8/21/17 and 700 days fronm the sign of Revelations on 9/23/17
It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature.
The article said it was 7.5. So does that blow up your goal seeking, bias confirming, illogical predictions? I don't know how to tell you this but you sound like a guy who wasted a good chunk of their waking hours studying a book of ancient fairy tales so you could assuage your fear of the unknown. Life is scary, and then you die. Drive defensively, eat healthy, and ignore western medicine and you can live to a ripe old age, without wasting most of it sitting quietly in uncomfortable wooden pews.
I've never understood those wood seats :| if you need to sit while some one tells you how bad you are then they could at least make you comfortable while they bitch at ya :)
They're cheap and needed more money for paintings and gold.
While I do not point at every event and say see... and let me show you where that is written down... if you don't recognize that we are in the last days you have not been paying attention.
Between a looming world war (where all available weaponry will be used... it always is), world wide economic collapse, peak antibiotics, and a decline in moral character only witnessed at the worse moments of human history, we are heading straight towards a singularity.
I am a Christian. I believe in God. I am also a scientist, and by hobby a historian. Do I see the times we are living in biblical terms... absolutely. But I can just as easily shift my thinking see the world as material, or to provide my circumstances historical context. Anyway you look at it we are in a massively transformative moment.
I believe there is hope. I also do not believe that hope resides in the affairs of my fellow men. Having lived through some big earthquakes I can assure you they are unnerving affairs, and if God wanted to get our attention, potentially useful. But I do not read more into the world than is necessary.
People are looking for answers and mostly what they are getting is obfuscation... some of that is religious in nature, much of it isn't. I have no issue with those of you who do not place faith in God. There was a time in my life when i was just like you. But I like to think that I came to my faith honestly, after years of considering the evidence and attempting to reach a fair conclusion, and I will admit that it irks me a bit when folks pass over my beliefs having given them cursory consideration.
If you choose to believe there is no hope I do not have a problem with that... I am convinced that you are wrong, for what I perceive to be really good reasoning... but maybe you are right. I am content either way...
If you choose to bury your head in the sand and just believe that everything will be ok... well, all I can say to that is that your faith far exceeds mine.
They have been screaming "These are the last days" and meaning it, and showing us the signs, since I was a kid. I bet they have been doing it longer than that. ;-)
Now this website, which I love, and I have been here well over 6 years, they too have been screaming "The big crash is coming" since their inception. And I know it is. Just may not be in my lifetime. I'll still watch and prepare, just like a bible believing Christian should (I am not, but I respect freedom of speech, religion, press, bearing arms, stuff like that). Having your affairs in order is always a good idea. Living well and treating your neighbors with kindness and respect is always a good idea. Feels good too.
On a long enough timeline, the end of times is always near at hand.
One may think of 'the last days' on a larger scale, particularly as these relate to 'one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day to the Lord'. One not very common perspective is that the 'week' of creation recorded in Genesis is also prophetic in the sense of laying out a time line of future epical periods of human experience, each lasting about a thousand years. If so, 'the last days' of the 'works of men' are in fact seen as the last two thousand years of the 6 millenia which are allotted for mankind to do it's own will and works before the final millenia which is a 'sabbath rest' from the will and works of mankind. That last millenia being characterized by 'the reign of Christ' - IE 'thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven'.
So, yeah, the 'last days' have been a stretch of two thousand years ending about now-ish (no date, just transition). Not sure what the 'next thing' is going to look like. Whatever it develops like will certainly be interesting and quite unlike anything we've seen in the past 6 millenia.
I agree with everything you say, unfortunately none of it translates into eyeballs/clicks/traffic/money. So, you can go crazy along with the mob, or choose not to. Speaking for myself, I am starting a business that makes custom tin foil hats...
Very interresting that it was 7.7 and that it occurred on a planetary alignment of biblical significants.
666 days till solar eclipse on 8/21/17 and 700 days fronm the sign of Revelations on 9/23/17
No more end of days theories, please. That dog is all bark and no bite
Woof ...................Woof
Krugman just got a boner over all the broken windows.
Shhhh! Don't say "bone" around all these dogs trying to hunt.
Maybe this was a come to Jesus moment for them.
More like bringing the mountain to mohammed.
It's that HAARPie, tectonic plate, manmade global warming thingy again ;-)
But I thought it was supposed to be the Joos?
Clearly plate tectonics are a Zionist plot.
Let's not forget CERN.
- (SOUNDS: Fukushima Daichii Sounds:
The sound track is entirely (sliced/modded) from Fukushima Plutonium Reactor3 four detonations). link on request.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rc37dRCI4w
As if Afghanistan, Pakistan and India needed more bad luck. At least 20 killed and 300 injured though the toll will rise a lot more. Electricity has been cutoff in many cities across the region. Roads have been damaged as far away as Kashmir's capital, Srinagar.
The Nobel Prize Winner will send his sympathies via drones per usual
If a 7.5 quake happened at 2:44pm I would be concerned about the number of people washed off all those winding mountain roads in landslides...
I don't imagine there's a lot of traffic jams on those mountain roads in north-central Afghanistan. And I don't imagine many people got "washed" off the mountains since it was an earthquake not a flood.
I'm guessing you haven't driven them. Narrow roads with no guards rails and often over a thousand feet of steep slopes above and below. Monsoon season ended recently. which not only washes cars off the road regularly (sometimes taking the road with them), but also leaves both soil and rocks dangerously unstable, add an earthquake to unstable rocky slopes and let gravity do its thing...
And now this earthquake happened.
We never get any news out of Tajikistan, and they were damn close. Bloomberg had lots of news from the Paks and the Afghans but not the Tajiks.
Oh, and the big headlines on my local rag: Russkies Lurking Near Undersea Cables! AIEEEEE!
Think I'll go rambling on the net for a few minutes . . .
Most earthquakes are side to side not up and down. Interesting.
godzilla bumped his head on a tunnel roof.
Don't worry : No U.S drone were lost during the earthquake
Allah be testing their faith again.
They don't have faith, they have subserviance to a FICTITIOUS capricious cosmic killjoy. Islam is the dumbest "religion" humanity could conjure besides buddhism, hinduism, all the pantheisms, and atheism.
"subserviance to a FICTITIOUS capricious cosmic killjoy"
I love the hubris of the deeply ignorant; precisely how little you understand that, to rational thinking humans, your description is perfectly apt for Christianity right alongside the other faiths.
Enjoy your false Abrahamic dichotomy and pretending that you're in any way different than those idiot Taliban goatherders suffering in RealFarAway-istan.
Wow, thanks for that amusing confession of ignorance and bigotry gmad.
No snack bar for you!
Who be downing you on that one?
If only it were magnitude 11.7 instead of 7.7
That would be ten thousand times as strong.
Do you wish that it killed millions?
11.7 is overkill.
shut the fcuk up.
Who needs JDAMS when you have a HAARP
They can be intercepted but not natural accidents
Anyone with the most basic knowledge of physics, for a start.
Break out the 'caused by global warming' and caused by 'fracking in Oklahoma' crowd...
More like "Parade of the Idiots" with you in the lead...
BREAKING NEWS .... ....This just in:
Unnamed source at the Pantygon said this earthquake was caused by Putin's bombing of friendly rebels (aka terrorists) in Syria.
Barack Hussein Obola to read another teleprompt script later today.
Who-da-thunk it.
Ok ok who brought God into help fight the war?
We HAARPED some folks.