People ran outside buildings in Karachi, Hyderabad, Larkana and other towns and cities of the Sindh province, and as far away as Lahore, Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Shaking was also felt in New Delhi and some other parts of northern India. Early reports indicate that at least 327 people died as the result of collapses of mud brick houses and poorly constructed buildings. The new island, now extending 20 m (60-70 feet) above the water, began emitting poisonous methane gas on September 26. Presentation courtesy of Dr Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction

1. ISLAND CREATED DURING
THE QUAKE

2. M7.7 EARTHQUAKE STRIKES
WESTERN PAKISTAN
(Distant Locations Feel Shaking
From Shallow Earthquake)
September 24, 2013

3. LOCATION OF PAKISTAN

4. 4:29 PM, SEPT. 24, 2013
• At 4:29 pm local time, a dangerous time
of the day, a magnitude-7.7 earthquake
occurred at a SHALLOW depth of 23
km in a seismically active area 63 km
(36 miles) from the city of Awaran,
located in Pakistan’s Balochistan
Province.

5. TECTONIC SETTING
• According to the US Geological Survey,
the earthquake, which had a relatively
shallow depth, was centered at a
complex triple junction in the Earth’s
subsurface where the Arabian tectonic
plate is pushing its way beneath the
Eurasian plate as the Indian plate is
ramming both of them from the south:

6. A COMPLEX TECTONIC
SETTING

7. A COMPLEX TECTONIC
SETTING

8. UNIQUE HAPPENING: THE
QUAKE’S TECTONICS
CREATED AN ISLAND

9. ISLAND CREATED DURING
THE QUAKE

10. ISLAND: EARTHQUAKE OR
VOLCANO RELATED?

11. NEW ISLAND EMMITING
POISONOUS GAS
• The new island, now extending
20 m (60-70 feet) above the
water, began emitting
poisonous methane gas on
September 26.

12. DEATHS

13. EARLY REPORTS OF
DEATHS
• Early reports indicate that at least 327
people died as the result of collapses
of mud brick houses and poorly
constructed buildings.

14. MUD BRICK HOUSES
COLLAPSED

15. RUBBLE EVERYWHERE

16. BUILDINGS COLLAPSED

17. EXTRACTING A CAR FROM
THE RUBBLE

18. A GRIM OUTLOOK
• The death toll will likely increase.
• You don’t need to be an earthquake
engineer to know that an earthquake in
this remote part of Pakistan, where
homes are made of mud brick or rubble
masonry, will lead to more building
collapses and a much higher mortality
and morbidity toll than for a similar
earthquake in Italy or California.

19. SHAKING FELT OVER A WIDE AREA
• People ran outside buildings in
Karachi, Hyderabad, Larkana and other
towns and cities of the Sindh province,
and as far away as Lahore, Rawalpindi
and Islamabad.
• Shaking was also felt in New Delhi and
some other parts of northern India..

20. THE QUAKE WAS FELT STRONGLY
IN KARACHI (710 km (430 miles))

21. KARACHI’S WORKDAY IS
OVER

22. Long traffic jams were seen on
the roads of Karachi as people,
concerned about the inevitable
aftershocks, left office early.

23. RELIEF
First 24 Hours

24. LOCATION OF QUETTA, THE
PROVENCIAL CAPITAL

25. RELIEF OPERATIONS PLANNING
BEGAN IMMEDIATELY. . .
BUT IMPLEMENTATION WAS
SLOWED BY FACTORS RANGING
FROM TRAFFIC JAMS TO A
ROCKET ATTACK

26. LOW MORALE IN STRICKEN
REGION
• People in the stricken area feel
they have been neglected for
decades – they cite lack of
schools, roads, and civil
provisions here as proof.

27. CURRENT PUBLIC
PERCEPTIONS
• “If the government had paid attention
to these areas before the quake and
built health and medical facilities there
(which are currently nonexistent),
things would not have been so bad.
• “Many of the critically injured continue
to die because hey are receiving no
help.”

28. QUICK RESPONSE
• Province officials declared a
state-of- emergency in
Awaran, where 90 percent of
Balochistan’s largest district
was destroyed.

29. QUICK RESPONSE
• The army planned to dispatch
relief, rescue, and medical teams,
300 soldiers, and a helicopter to
the worst-hit areas located seven
to eight hours' drive from Quetta,
the provincial capital

30. MILITARY LOADING
SUPPLIES

31. A RELIEF TEAM LOADING
SUPPLIES

32. HINDERANCES IN FIRST 24
HOURS
• In the first 24 hours no one could reach
the villages in the remote, hardest hit
areas, and …
• Most of the aid was stuck in Quetta,
the capital, because of concerns about
security

33. SEPT. 25: RELIEF
OPERATIONS SLOWED
• Two rockets were fired
unsuccessfully from the ground at
a military helicopter taking relief
supplies to the stricken areas;
• Understandably, operations
thereafter were slowed and many
villages have not received help

34. A 2013 WINDOW OF
OPPORTUNITY?
• Local social workers say
September 2013 could be an
opportune moment for the
government to win the hearts and
minds of those who are
disillusioned.
.

35. A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY?
(Continued)
• “It is a great opportunity to reach out to
the locals through aid, and it is never
too late to show them that you care,”
said Mohammad Dawood, who heads
the National Welfare Organization, a
local nongovernmental organization in
Balochistan, and who has been
attempting to provide aid in the
stricken area.

36. REMEMBERING THE 2008
EARTHQUAKE IN
PAKISTAN

37. 2008 PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE

38. 2008 PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE
• The earthquake struck near Quetta,
the capitol of Baluchistan Province.
• Quetta, hit by a devastating
earthquake in 1935, is located in a
known fault zone caused by
ongoing collision of the Indo-
Australian and Eurasian plates.

39. 2008 PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE
• Ziarat, located in the hills and one of
the poorest areas of Pakistan, was
devastated by landslides and
collapse of mud brick houses.
• Early estimates indicate that as
many as 12,000 are now homeless
in 40 degree weather.

40. 2008 PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE

41. 2008 PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE

42. 2008 PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE

43. 2008 PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE

44. 2008 PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE:
LEAVING WITH BELONGINGS

45. 2008 PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE:
RESCUE WORKERS ARRIVE

46. PAKISTAN AIR FORCE
ORGANIZING RELIEF

47. REMEMBERING THE 2005
EARTHQUAKE IN
PAKISTAN

48. 2005 EARTHQUAKE
• 80,000 were Killed in the M7.6
earthquake that struck Kashmir
and Islamabad in northern
Pakistan in October 2005.

49. OCTOBER 8, 2005 PAKISTAN
EARTHQUAKE

50. LONG-TERM RECOVERY NEEDS
AFTER EARTHQUAKE DISASTER
• NEED: 2 TO 3 MILLION NEW
DWELLINGS THAT ARE EARTHQUAKE
RESILIENT.
• NEED: NEW SCHOOLS THAT ARE
EARTHQUAKE RESILIENT.
• NEED: NEW HOSPITALS THAT ARE
EARTHQUAKE RESILIENT.
• NEED: INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS
EARTHQUAKE RESILIENT.