Pakistan Earthquake: Magnitude 7.4 Quake Hits Southwestern Region

A 7.4 magnitude earthquake has been reported in southwestern Pakistan, according to the U.S. Geological Service.

The quake struck 6.2 miles underground and took place 25 miles west of Dalbandin, Pakistan. No injuries were immediately reported.

According to the AP:

The earthquake struck at 1:30 a.m. local time on Wednesday in Baluchistan province near the border with Afghanistan.

Local TV reports said the earthquake was felt in several provinces in the country.

Reuters reports that the quake did not trigger a tsunami warning for the Indian Ocean.

This is a developing story.

Comments

[AmosKnows]

10:06 PM on 01/19/2011

Earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, severe weather, dying animals (some falling out of the sly). Where have I heard this kind of doom before?

[halfpricefaustian]

12:41 PM on 01/19/2011

Wow. Major flooding and now an earthquake. Now if they can just have some wildfires, they can change their name to California.

[isaidit]

10:05 AM on 01/19/2011

Not a heavily populated area for once. Whew.

[rougebaisers]

06:28 AM on 01/19/2011

HAARP is going to be blamed for this one too.

[palindrom]

07:00 AM on 01/19/2011

Yes, indeed it is. Interested readers can look at some of my comments on this thread about how wack these anti-HAARP folks have become. They've taken a modest-scale research facility and somehow imagined that it is a magic machine for world domination, proving once again that everyone's an expert on the intertubes.

[isb782]

12:13 AM on 01/19/2011

Not again.

[momopopo]

12:03 AM on 01/19/2011

Maybe they don't love Allah enough....

[BestGuest]

02:58 AM on 01/19/2011

Very classy....

[RubalKhali]

06:26 AM on 01/19/2011

Yeah and god created AIDS because of the abomination of sinners and Katrina took out New Orleans because the people didn't love the Judaic-Christian vengful sky thingy.Dope

[Eileenla]

11:55 PM on 01/18/2011

Sending healing thoughts to the people of Pakistan. May they get through this with minimal suffering...

[Cannonball Taffy O Jones]

11:25 PM on 01/18/2011

I hope the people of Pakistan start to get some peace in 2011.
 
After years of floods, earthquakes, conflict and political instability they deserve it.

[RubalKhali]

11:28 PM on 01/18/2011

Oh my dog, another post of yours I agree with.

[Cannonball Taffy O Jones]

11:38 PM on 01/18/2011

It must be a sign of the End Times.

[RubalKhali]

11:29 PM on 01/18/2011

Your are a sick individual

[Luuke]

03:12 AM on 01/19/2011

He says like how it is ....Maybe Allah's warning about blasphemy laws ??? U r one sick individual for for tryin to hide from reality....

[Cannonball Taffy O Jones]

11:40 PM on 01/18/2011

Disgusting, people are dying.

[blitznstitch]

11:08 PM on 01/18/2011

OMG - that country just can't catch a break.

[salamanca1]

11:02 PM on 01/18/2011

Pakistanis are now very wary of asking, "What more could go wrong?"

[spacemonkey086]

10:33 PM on 01/18/2011

luckily most buildings in pakistan are shanty shacks. everything will be back in a few days.

[palindrom]

10:50 PM on 01/18/2011

Oy. If it were your shack, you might feel differently.

[blitznstitch]

11:09 PM on 01/18/2011

that was a cruel statement...

[Marklar]

10:04 PM on 01/18/2011

USGS = survey, not service.

[Barringtonmorr]

09:34 PM on 01/18/2011

I hope they get a break in the near future. Mother nature has not been nice to the Pakistani people with the flood and now this.

[Luuke]

03:14 AM on 01/19/2011

Forget Mother nature's goodness...Hv the people been good to each other ?? The daily death rate in Pakistan due to violence is about 25 per day....

[RubalKhali]

06:22 AM on 01/19/2011

In 1996 there were 32,436 firearm-related deaths. These included:

17,566 firearm-related suicides
13,522 firearm-related homicides
981 unintentional deaths related to firearms.
It hasn't got much better, and it works out to alot more than 25 a day, and that's only guns!

[RubalKhali]

06:23 AM on 01/19/2011

That's in the U.S. not Pakistan, close to 100 a day.

[GeoTor]

09:27 PM on 01/18/2011

This won't be covered much in the media.
Australia's floods have been covered non-stop. But if we all recall, Pakistan had major flooding recently and it took weeks before it made the news. No disaster relief organized internationally, except by ex-pat grassroots type orgs in various countries, like Canada.
But Pakistan needs to hire a Manhattan-based PR firm to prop up their image internationally. Everyone assumes that they've made their bed with al-Qaeda , or the Taliban.
People just don't want their money being directed towards natural disasters in Pakistan because it might end up in the hands of the Taliban or AQ to buy weaponry. Who knows, maybe there's truth to this, but until Pakistan manages to clean up their international image, people will quickly forget about natural disasters in Pakistan because out of sight, out of mind.

[asif haider]

01:24 AM on 01/19/2011

Personal responsibility goes further than mile that everyone else travels. If people of one country is automatically interested in learning about something, that’s what media will show. Media is for your entertainment and attention not for your global knowledge. It’s the truth, what comforts people is what media will sell (or what will get people’s attention). It’s the principal of business "supply and demand". For your better understanding and mine we should stick to alternative source of news, rest will pay their due of ignorance with tragedy, i.e.: "oh wow! This is sooo wrong! How could’ve this happen? This is so unimaginable!" =)