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3rd UPDATE: At Least 170 Dead

Mitch Battros

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A strong second earthquake struck before dawn Wednesday in impoverished southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 170 people and turning mud and timber homes into rubble. An estimated 15,000 people were left homeless, and rescuers were digging for survivors in a remote valley in Baluchistan, the remote province bordering Afghanistan where the magnitude 6.4 quake struck.

 

                        UTC  Date       Time           Lat         Lon      Depth

1) MAG  6.4 - 2008/10/29 - 11:32:43 - 30.546  - 67.447 - 10.0     PAKISTAN

 

2) MAG  6.4 - 2008/10/28 - 23:09:58 - 30.653  - 67.323 - 15.0     PAKISTAN

 

Officials said they were distributing thousands of tents, blankets and food packages and sending in earth-moving equipment to dig mass graves.

 
 

 

Many of those who survived were left with little more than the clothes they had slept in, and with winter approaching, temperatures were expected to drop to around freezing in coming nights.

 

The worst-hit area from the first quake appeared to be Ziarat, where hundreds of mostly mud and timber houses were destroyed in five villages, Mayor Dilawar Kakar said. Some homes were buried in a landslide triggered by the quake, he said.

 

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