Powerful earthquake hits Pakistan

by Steffen Richter, 2008/10/30

International media report that around 160 people died in this morning's heavy earthquake. Many spent the night in zero temperatures in the open. Photo: alertnet.org/REUTERS

Balochistan is a very poor, but also thinly populated region in Pakistan, where the central government in Islamabad commands very little authority.

In that year, a quake of a magnitude of 7,6 hit the Pakistan part of Kashmir, claiming over 80,000 lives.

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