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View from space: Earthquake island before and after

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Earthsky.org - 9/29/13, Deborah Byrd

Earthquake island, via National Institute of Oceanography

The deadly earthquake that struck Pakistan on September 24, 2013 – leaving 515 people dead and 100,000 homeless – also created a new earthly landform. A new mud island now lies offshore in the Paddi Zirr (West Bay) near Gwadar, Pakistan. It is some 380 kilometers (230 miles) from the earthquake’s epicenter. It’s being called being called Zalzala Jazeera – or earthquake island. The first image below shows the new island from space, as seen by NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite on September 26. The second image shows the same area on April 17; no sign of an island could be seen at that time.

NASA Earth Observatory image via Earth-Observing-1 satellite.

Southern Pakistan struck by another strong earthquake

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By: Theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com, 09/28/2013

September 28, 2013 – PAKISTAN - Several cities of Pakistan’s Sindh and Balochistan provinces were on Saturday hit by a massive aftershock measuring 6.8, three days after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck the region killed over 500 people. Pakistan’s Met office measured the earthquake at 7.2, while the US Geological Survey (USGS) recorded it at 6.8 on the Richter Scale. Tremors were felt in provincial capitals Karachi and Quetta. All the local television channels showed people rushing out of their offices in Karachi after the latest tremors. “The tremors were not so strong as last time but one could still feel the chairs moving and tables shaking,” Adnan Ahmed a employee of a media group said. Zahid Rafi, director of the National Seismic Centre, said that the origin of this earthquake was once again Awaran.

 

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Quake kills 45 in Pakistan, creates new island in sea (video)

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Reuters) - A major earthquake hit a remote part of western Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 45 people and prompting a new island to rise from the sea just off the country's southern coast.

Tremors were felt as far away as the Indian capital of New Delhi, hundreds of miles (kilometers) to the east, where buildings shook, as well as the sprawling port city of Karachi in Pakistan

Powerful earthquake strikes Pakistan's Balochistan

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By: bbcnews, 09/24/2013

A powerful earthquake of 7.8-magnitude has struck a remote area in south-west Pakistan, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) says. It struck at 16:29 local time (11:29 GMT) at a depth of 23km (15 miles), 145 miles south-east of Dalbandin in Balochistan province, USGS adds. It was reportedly felt in the Indian capital Delhi, where some buildings shook.

 

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