At least 20 people were killed and more than 300 injured in an earthquake that struck the southern Pakistani province of Balochistan at dawn today, Thursday, October 7, 2021.
Throughout its modern history, Pakistan has been subjected to many violent earthquakes because it occurred above the meeting point of the Indian, European and Asian tectonic plates (a scientific theory describing the major movements of the Earth's lithosphere).
Quetta earthquakes I.. 60 thousand dead
May 31, 1935: An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale hits Quetta, now the western part of Pakistan, killing between 30,000 and 60,000.
December 28, 1974: A violent earthquake struck 9 towns in the northern mountains of Pakistan, leaving 5,300 people dead.
February 1, 1991: 1,500 people are killed in Pakistan and Afghanistan in an 8.6-magnitude earthquake.
March 3, 2002: A strong earthquake shook central and northern Pakistan, causing panic among the residents who had disembarked from the buildings of the capital, Islamabad and other areas.
The 6.5-magnitude earthquake also shook the nearby city of Peshawar and Lahore, the capital of Punjab province, as well as the city of Multan in the south of the province.
Residents of Peshawar and the capital, Islamabad, took to the streets when the earthquake struck, but there were no reports of casualties or material damage.
The earthquake also hit the Afghan capital, Kabul, and its effects reached the Indian capital and Kashmir.
October 2002: Pakistan experienced an earthquake, killing 12 people and displacing two thousand people.
- November 21, 2002: An earthquake and its aftershocks of continuous earthquakes hit the mountainous regions of northern Pakistan, killing 23 people and leaving 15,000 people homeless in bad weather.
The homes of the displaced were either completely destroyed or severely damaged, and the official toll indicated the destruction of about a thousand homes in the area.
- December 25, 2002: Residents of areas near the eastern city of Lahore felt the aftershocks of a strong earthquake that struck areas in northern Afghanistan, with a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter scale, but it did not cause any losses in Pakistan.
February 14, 2004: 20 people were killed and many injured in an earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale that struck northern Pakistan.
December 26, 2004: Hundreds of thousands of people are killed across Asia when a 9.2-magnitude earthquake triggers sea storms across the region.
The most violent earthquake of 2005.. 87 thousand people were killed and 3 million were displaced
October 8, 2005: A 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck northern Pakistan and the disputed Kashmir region, killing more than 87,000 people and leaving more than 3 million homeless.
April 4, 2006: An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 struck northern Pakistan, injuring 12 people.
- The Seismological Department said that the Hazara region (200 km) to the northeast of the city of Peshawar in the northwest of the country is the epicenter of the quake.
The people of Batagram and several parts of the North West Frontier Province as well as the Pakistani part of Kashmir and Islamabad, felt the tremor.
April 3, 2007: A strong earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale hit the Hindu Kush mountains in northeastern Afghanistan, felt by the residents of Kabul and most of neighboring Pakistan, all the way to the Indian capital, New Delhi.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
September 6, 2008: An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale hit parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, with the epicenter of the Hindu Kush mountains in Badakhshan province of Afghanistan.
October 29, 2008: At least 300 people are killed in Pakistan's Balochistan province after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake strikes 45 miles north of Quetta.
December 26, 2008: An earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale shook the coast of Pakistan, the earthquake was at a depth of 10 km and about 300 km west of Karachi.
- There were no immediate reports of injuries or material losses, nor was there a warning of a tsunami.
October 23, 2009: A strong earthquake shook northern Pakistan and Afghanistan, causing widespread panic among the residents of those remote mountainous areas, and there were no reports of casualties.
The Pakistani authorities said that the epicenter of the earthquake, which measured 6.2 on the Richter scale, was located at a depth of about 180 km below the surface of the earth and hit the high-altitude Hindu Kush mountains.
February 28, 2010: An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale hit Pakistan and Afghanistan. No human or material losses were recorded.
- Reports indicated that the epicenter of the earthquake was in the Hindu Kush mountain region and hit Mansehra in northwest Pakistan, and was felt by the people of Peshawar and other parts of the tribal areas, including Swat, Nowshera and Malakand, and the people of Islamabad and the surrounding areas.
January 19, 2011: A strong earthquake hit an area 47 km southwest of Dalbandin town in Balochistan province, southwest Pakistan.
- No news has been received yet about losses or casualties caused by it, because the areas it hit are remote rural areas.
The areas hit by the earthquake are villages scattered over a large area, most of their dwellings are mud. The earthquake's strength was 6.4 on the Richter scale, and the residents of Karachi and some other coastal cities located on the Arabian Sea felt it lighter.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center announced that the earthquake occurred deep inland, far from the ocean, so that no tsunami waves could occur.
September 25, 2013: More than 300 people were killed as a result of the 7.7-magnitude earthquake that devastated entire villages in the remote Balochistan province of southwestern Pakistan, especially in the Awaran region.
May 9, 2014: Two people were killed and dozens were injured, in addition to the destruction of many houses, as a result of a 5-magnitude earthquake that hit the "Nawab Shah" district of Sindh province in southern Pakistan.
- October 26, 2015: About 400 people were killed when a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck northeastern Afghanistan, most of the deaths were in Pakistan, but the impact of the earthquake also reached northern India and Tajikistan.
April 10, 2016: An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale struck northwest Pakistan on the Afghan border, but no casualties were reported.
The epicenter of the earthquake was near Chitral in Pakistan, at a depth of 210 km. New Delhi (the capital of India) and Kashmir were hit by earthquakes that forced the residents to leave their homes.
January 31, 2018: An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale hit the Afghan capital Kabul, and its impact extended to be felt by the people of Pakistan and Uttar Pradesh in northern India and eastern Uzbekistan.
The earthquake killed one person and injured others in Lasbela district of Balochistan, southwestern Pakistan, after the roof of their house collapsed, and a number of mud houses were also cracked in Balochistan.
September 24, 2019: An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 struck Pakistan, killing 37 people, injuring more than 500, and damaging hundreds of homes, including 136 completely destroyed.
The epicenter of the earthquake was about 20 km north of the city of Jhelum on the border between the state of Punjab and Pakistani Kashmir, and it occurred at a depth of 10 km. Residents of the Indian capital New Delhi earthquake.
Balochistan earthquake 2021
October 7, 2021: 20 people were killed and about 300 were injured in a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Balochistan.
Its center is located at a depth of 20 km and is 100 km from the provincial capital, Quetta, and was felt by the residents of this city and many cities and towns of the region.
The areas most affected by the earthquake are Harnai, a mountainous city that is difficult for relief teams to reach because there are no paved roads, and the electricity and telephone networks are rudimentary.