Relief work after the earthquake in Pakistan: a Pakistani-American physician's perspective.(Personal account)

From: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The only thing you can definitely predict about earthquakes is, the further you are from the last one, the nearer you are to the next.

--DR. EDGAR K. SOPER

Imagine the combined populations of Dallas and Collin counties--approximately 3 million people--becoming homeless in 60 seconds. Such is the scope of the disaster that occurred on October 8, 2005, at 8:50 AM local time, when an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale devastated large parts of Northern Pakistan and Pakistani-administered Kashmir. Pakistan's earthquake was the worst natural disaster since the ...

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