Iht: Earthquake In Balochistan: Death Toll Touches 150

[China]

Earthquake in Balochistan: Death toll touches 150

 

A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing hundreds in Balochistan, besides creating a new island off the Gwadar coastline in its wake, Express News reported.

Tremors were felt as far as the Indian capital New Delhi.

The Deputy Speaker Balochistan Assembly stated that at least 150 people had died from the disaster in the province.

 

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On the Gwadar coastline, the quake created a small island about half a mile into the sea near an area called ‘Jhanda’, according to Express News.

 

The newly appearing island is said to have a mountainous terrain rising up to a hundred feet. A large crowd was seen gathering at the site to see the new island.

 

 

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[Predicto]

Whoh.  The death toll is rising fast.  I thought it was about 40-45.   

 

[TradeTheBeal!]

Raised an island 100 feet out of the sea?!?

 

That's some pretty heavy ****.

[China]

Pakistan earthquake creates new island, 'mud volcano' to blame

 

Mud houses in the mountains crumbled as a 7.7-magnitude earthquake shook western Pakistan early on Tuesday. Meanwhile, on the coast, residents of Gwadar saw a solitary island rise from the sea. 

 

Older residents of the coastal town said the land emergence was déjà vu — an earthquake in 1968 produced an island that stayed for one year and then vanished, Ali Mohammad, 60, and Azeem Baloch, 57, told NBC News.

 

Seismologists suspect the island is a temporary formation resulting from a "mud volcano," a jet of mud, sand and water that gushed to the surface as the temblor churned and pressurized that slurry under the ocean floor.

 

"Sandy layers underground are shaken, and sand grains jiggle and become more compact," John Armbruster, a seismologist at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University told NBC News. The shifting sand layers are compacted and pressurize the water, which gushed upwards, carrying mud and sand along with it. 

 

This "liquefaction" of sand and mud layers take place after any earthquake, but these sudden islands are usually spotted after strong earthquakes, at least 7- or 8-magnitude events. The distance of the island from the epicenter of the quake is "a little bit surprising," Armbruster said, granted that "the sediments are quite soft and susceptible to this."

 

Back in the 1940s, a sizable island rose from the sea in the area, but it didn't last long. After an earthquake near Karachi struck, the British Indian Geological survey recorded a new island "big enough that people could land a boat and walk on it," Armbruster said. "Within days, weeks" — he wasn't sure how long — "it washed away."

 

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[China]

Death toll has climbed to 355 and militants are attacking aid helicopters:

 

Militants target relief helicopter in Pakistan's quake-hit area as death toll climbs to 355

 

AWARAN, Pakistan (AP) — Two rockets fired by militants in Pakistan's quake-struck region narrowly missed a government helicopter on Thursday as survivors complained that aid was not reaching far-flung areas and the harrowing death toll climbed to 355.

 

The attack underscored the dangers authorities and aid workers face in helping victims in southwestern Baluchistan province where a massive, magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit earlier this week.

 

Two days after the tremor struck, rescuers were still struggling to help survivors. The death toll from the quake reached 355 on Thursday, with nearly 700 people injured, according to a statement from the country's National Disaster Management Authority.

 

In the town of Arawan, about 100 protesters gathered around the district office to call attention to the plight of those living in outlying villages still waiting for help.

 

"The people who survived the earthquake are dying now because they have no food or water," said Abdul Latif, one of the protesters.

 

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[Zguy28]

Death toll has climbed to 355 and militants are attacking aid helicopters:

 

Militants target relief helicopter in Pakistan's quake-hit area as death toll climbs to 355

 

AWARAN, Pakistan (AP) — Two rockets fired by militants in Pakistan's quake-struck region narrowly missed a government helicopter on Thursday as survivors complained that aid was not reaching far-flung areas and the harrowing death toll climbed to 355.

 

The attack underscored the dangers authorities and aid workers face in helping victims in southwestern Baluchistan province where a massive, magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit earlier this week.

 

Two days after the tremor struck, rescuers were still struggling to help survivors. The death toll from the quake reached 355 on Thursday, with nearly 700 people injured, according to a statement from the country's National Disaster Management Authority.

 

In the town of Arawan, about 100 protesters gathered around the district office to call attention to the plight of those living in outlying villages still waiting for help.

 

"The people who survived the earthquake are dying now because they have no food or water," said Abdul Latif, one of the protesters.

 

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I'm not saying if I was an aid helicopter pilot I wouldn't still help them, but how can they expect aid or protest this when their own folks are shooting missiles at the helpers?

[visionary]

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[China]

Another new island, this time near Japan:

 

Underwater Volcanic Eruption Gives Birth To New Island Off Japan

 

 

A volcanic eruption formed a new island Wednesday morning in the Pacific Ocean to the far south of Tokyo, the Japanese coast guard and earthquake experts said.

 

The eruption is currently taking place southeast of Nishinoshima island, which is part of Japan’s Ogasawara island chain. It has already created an island with a diameter of 660 feet, suggesting that the vent was located in very shallow waters.

 

A volcanologist with the coast guard, Ito Hiroshi, told the FNN news network that it was possible the new island might eventually erode away. Although the uninhabited Nishinoshima grew in size between 1973 and 1974, and then became connected to a new island created by volcanic activity, during the last eruption.