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... 

 

 

 

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