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Increased toll in Pakistan quake: 18,000 dead, 40,000 injured
Rahimullah Yusufzai : Peshawar, Pakistan : 1158GMT (BBC blogs):
The first shock was very serious, we were all rocked and the whole place was shaking. I ran out of my home.
It continued for almost six minutes, it was very long. Since the first shock we have had a dozen after-shocks.
We keep coming back to our houses and then having to flee again. Some have decided not to return to their homes for now.
Initial aid commitments by a few countries: U.K, $177,000 (I guess that's 100,000 pounds), U.S.: $100,000, Ireland: 1,000,000 Euros.
I can't track the articles right now, but a few mentioned that entire mountain villages, which would have had their houses made of mudbricks, have been wiped out.
*** ETA: For a better "spread map" of the Pakistani earthquake than what's on the BBC site
Rahimullah Yusufzai : Peshawar, Pakistan : 1158GMT (BBC blogs):
The first shock was very serious, we were all rocked and the whole place was shaking. I ran out of my home.
It continued for almost six minutes, it was very long. Since the first shock we have had a dozen after-shocks.
We keep coming back to our houses and then having to flee again. Some have decided not to return to their homes for now.
Initial aid commitments by a few countries: U.K, $177,000 (I guess that's 100,000 pounds), U.S.: $100,000, Ireland: 1,000,000 Euros.
I can't track the articles right now, but a few mentioned that entire mountain villages, which would have had their houses made of mudbricks, have been wiped out.
*** ETA: For a better "spread map" of the Pakistani earthquake than what's on the BBC site
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F's family is mostly here and their relatives are in Mumbai so there's no worry there...