Saturday, July 16, 2005
Earthquake jolts Karachi
Three tremors shook southern localities of the city when a moderate earthquake hit Balochistan on Saturday morning. “Two minor quakes jolted the city at around 4:48am and 10:47am. The first measured 1.6 on the Richter scale and the other 3.6. Their intensity was too low to enable us to determine their exact location,” the director-general of the Pakistan Meteorological Department, Dr Qamaruzzam Chaudhry, told Dawn.
The tremors had also been felt in some phases of Defence and in localities around I.I. Chundrigar Road, he added.
He said the moderate earthquake, which measured 5.5 on the Richter scale, pummelled the region around Loralai in Balochistan at 7.17am. He said the epicentre of the earthquake was around 700km south-west of Peshawar, adding that it was also felt in Karachi. (Story Here)
The tremors had also been felt in some phases of Defence and in localities around I.I. Chundrigar Road, he added.
He said the moderate earthquake, which measured 5.5 on the Richter scale, pummelled the region around Loralai in Balochistan at 7.17am. He said the epicentre of the earthquake was around 700km south-west of Peshawar, adding that it was also felt in Karachi. (Story Here)
Earthquake shook Big Islands
A 5.2 magnitude in Ritcher Scale earthquake shook the Big Isdands at 5:48AM and lasted for less than 10 seconds. There was no damage reported.
