Bala Pitchandi says,
As you may have seen, a 7.6-magnitude quake with the epicentre 80km (50 miles) north-east of Islamabad wiped out several villages. At least 500 died in North-West Frontier province in Pakistan. More than 450 died on both sides of Kashmir. The aftershocks have been felt all the way upto Aceh & Sumatra. The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami (SEA-EAT) bloggers have again assembled to blog about this disaster in our blog where the latest news, disaster helplines & relief requests are being posted.
Kathryn Cramer says,
I have set up a Islamabad Earthquake Community Walk site to which I believe (if I checked the right boxes) users can add markers to. I put in all the significant quakes that happened in the past 24 hours plus a marker for Islamabad with Flickr photos of the collapsed 19-storey building.
My writeup on the Islamabad Earthquake Community Walk site: Link
The Islamabad Earthquake Community Walk site: Link.
My first blog entry on the earthquake: Link
See also this news story, from the SEA-EAT blog:
Army seizes Uri town, bars media entry
The Army has seized Uri and barred media from entering the town of Baramullah district in Jammu and Kashmir even as the injured were being evacuated hours after the 7-plus magnitude earthquake flattened it this morning.
Survivors of the giant quake said in this hamlet, 20 km from Uri, that the death toll was "much higher" and the entire town had been flattened. They complained that the relief and rescue efforts had not come speedily and were not enough.
