A hidden surprise...

The south-west province of Balochistan, in Pakistan, has been hit by a powerful earthquake. In fact two powerful earthquakes!! Many homes have been destroyed and villages flattened, thousands have spent the night with no shelter. Despite being Pakistan’s largest province it is the least populated, and earthquakes are common in the region.

To count 400 people have tragically died, and leaving 340 injured. It has been reported that out of all these tragic deaths and homes being destroyed, one good thing has come out of it; the force of the earthquake has caused a rocky island to pop out on the coast off Pakistan! The army says it has sent over 200 soldiers and medics over to help.

 

 

 

 

 

An intruder...

Today's post isn't written by a usual GeoBlog attender, but we are trying to rule him in.. 

He originally brought us an article from a newspaper about the Pakistan Earthquake and has since brought in a million pictures from newspapers, we chose the best 5 and wrote a short explanation about each one... 

Proof that while we are busy learning somebody somewhere is living a totally different life... 

The same region in Pakistan was hit by two earthquakes in 4days... This map off the BBC website shows you just how close the epicentres were...

Over 400 people died in the first earthquake but days later hundreds more were affected by the second one!

Whole areas of housing was demolished in seconds because a lot of the housing was made of mud and rubble...

The most exciting pictures taken though were that of a mysterious island appearing after the second earthquake... A whole post dedicated to that coming soon... 

 

 

 

The 

Topic of the Month - September

Topic of the month for September is Natural Disasters...

 

Each Week in September we will post different things surrounding the same topic... To begin with we chose natural disasters as in year 9 we are studying it at the moment...

 

The eye-catching topic of the week is the Haiti Earthquake; it occurred in 2010 and had a massive magnitude of 7.0! It hit the south of Haiti’s capital, Port au Prince. The earthquake killed over 300,000 people!!

 

The strong earthquake was then followed by two more aftershocks with high magnitudes of 5.9 and 5.7, causing even more trauma for the people of Haiti.

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere and suffered four hurricanes and extreme storms in 2008, being barely recovered it was hit again with the disastrous earthquake in 2010.

Read more about the Haiti earthquakes through this link BBC News - Haiti devastated by massive earthquake which was published at the time.

Written by AB