South Asia a hotbed for earthquakes, shallow faults intensify quake
Hanoi, Oct. 10 (AP): The area stretching across Pakistan into India and Afghanistan is a hotbed for seismic activity that erupts each time the Indian subcontinent slams into Asia. But it's the shallow faults that make these temblors so deadly.
Saturday's magnitude-7.6 quake, centered just outside Pakistan's capital, was about six miles deep, causing buildings to sway in three nations and killing thousands as weak structures tumbled, crushing people under mounds of rubble.
"It's how close you are to where the earthquake initiated, because ground motions fall off very rapidly away from the earthquake," said Harley Benz, a seismologist who runs the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center in Colorado.
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Saturday's magnitude-7.6 quake, centered just outside Pakistan's capital, was about six miles deep, causing buildings to sway in three nations and killing thousands as weak structures tumbled, crushing people under mounds of rubble.
"It's how close you are to where the earthquake initiated, because ground motions fall off very rapidly away from the earthquake," said Harley Benz, a seismologist who runs the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center in Colorado.
Read the Full Story at The Hindu
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