Saturday 24 December 2011

Again, the earthquake in Pakistan

Officials said that the average 5.0 on the Richter scale earthquake struck southern Pakistan on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.The epicenter was 70 kilometers to the south-east of Sibi, the main town in the southern province of Balochistan on the border with Iran and Afghanistan."We felt the earthquake at 05:02 local in the cities of Quetta and Sibi in Balochistan province."The earthquake at a depth of 10 kilometers," he addded.Pakistan has been hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 on 8 October 2005 that killed more than 73,000 people and displaced some 3.5 million people homeless, particularly in Pakistan and Kashmir and parts of north-west of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.