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Topic: 2005 Indian subcontinent earthquake


  
  Reference.com/2005 Kashmir Earthquake
Most earthquakes are powered by the release of the stresses that accumulate over time, typically, at the boundaries of the plates that make up the Earth's lithosphere.
Some earthquakes are also caused by the movement of magma in volcanoes, and such quakes can be an early warning of volcanic eruptions.
Earthquakes such as these, that are caused by human activity, are referred to by the term induced seismicity.
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 Pakistan
Pakistan is situated in the western part of the Indian subcontinent, with Afghanistan and Iran on the west, India on the east, and the Arabian Sea on the south.
Indeed, during the summer of 2005, violence intensified in the mountainous North and South Waziristan regions, which border Afghanistan, suggesting that the insurgents are regrouping.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 struck Pakistani-controlled Kashmir on October 8, 2005.
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 Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
on July 1, 2005, with a fertility rate of 34 per thousand, a death rate of 10 per thousand and the rate of natural increase was 2.4%.
As of 2005, over three million refugees (approximately 81.5% being ethnic Pashtuns) remain in Pakistan as a result of the wars in Afghanistan, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, with 83% of the refugees reporting their intent to permanently settle in Pakistan.
Pakistani society is largely multilingual and predominantly Muslim, with high regard for traditional family values, although urban families have grown into a nuclear family system due to the socio-economic constraints imposed by the traditional joint family system.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Indian subcontinent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The birds of the Indian subcontinent include the species found in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
This is not only a huge geographical area, but has a range of habitats extending from deserts to rainforest, and from the world's highest mountains to coastal mangrove swamps.
This is a list of the butterflies of the Indian subcontinent and an index to the species articles.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Indian_subcontinent   (214 words)

  
 2005 Kashmir earthquake - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Most of the casualties resulting from the earthquake were in Pakistan where the official death toll has topped 84,000 and is expected to continue to rise, putting it higher than the massive scale of destruction of the Quetta earthquake of May 31, 1935.
Heavy equipment is needed to clear the roads and to rescue survivors buried under the earthquake wreckage, as many rescuers are still picking the rubble with pickaxes and their bare hands, looking for survivors.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani visited quake-hit areas (Rediff) An ex gratia of Rs one lakh (100,000 Indian rupees, about US$2255) to the next of kin of those killed in the quake was being released from the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund.
www.voyager.in /2005_Kashmir_earthquake   (3753 words)

  
 Tsunami Disaster- The Great Wave from the Indian Ocean; Earthquake, North Sumatra - Cybermed Update December 2004
The 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake of moment magnitude 9.0 that struck the Indian Ocean off the western coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia on December 26, 2004 at 00:58:49 UTC (07:58:49 local time in Jakarta and Bangkok; 08:58:49 local time Malaysia).
The devastating megathrust earthquake of December 26, 2004, occurred on the interface of the India and Burma plates and was caused by the release of stresses that develop as the India plate subducts beneath the overriding Burma plate.
The trench is the surface expression of the plate interface between the Australia and India plates, situated to the southwest of the trench, and the Burma and Sunda plates, situated to the northeast.
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 Top20SriLanka.com - Your Top20 Guide to Sri Lanka!
In August 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that presidential elections would be held in November 2005, resolving a long-running dispute on the length of President Kumaratunga's term.
It is separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.
According to Hindu mythology, a land bridge to the Indian mainland, known as Adam's Bridge, was constructed during the rule of Rama.
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 Sumatra Earthquake
Our prayers are with all those are dead, injured or homeless in the terrible events of the Sumatra Earthquake, including earthquake damage and the resulting tsunamis.
The earthquake recorded 9.0 on the Richter scale.
The largest earthquake in 40 years caused considerable damage in initial tremors and at least 26,000 have died in the Indian Ocean tsunamis that hit low-lying areas, especially around the Indian subcontinent.
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 In the media - Tsunamihelp
An Indian Web log that aims to aid tsunami survivors has reported 1.1 million hits within 10 days of its launch, in a country where blogging is still in its infancy.
The site, called the South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog (http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com), or SEA-EAT, helps people reunite with their families and aims to bring aid to regions hit by the earthquake and Indian Ocean tsunami on Dec. 26.
The result was the South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami blog, a Web site that has evolved into one of the most visited and important clearinghouses of information on the Internet about the epic tragedy.
www.tsunamihelp.info /wiki/index.php/In_the_media   (6167 words)

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