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A
moderate earthquake struck the Astore
Valley in the Kashmir Himalayas, on 3
November 2002 at 12:33 PM local time killing 17 people and causing
damage to property. It had a magnitude of
Mw=5.3. This
earthquake followed a similar sized earthquake on 2 November and
was followed by a larger event on 21 November 2002.
The earthquake
was centred 6
kilometres NW of Rakhlot Peak, Kashmir Himalayas,
13.9 kilometres NNE of Nanga Parbat peak (Zaskar
Mountains), Kashmir Himalayas,
20.4 kilometres W of Astore (Zaskar Mountains), Kashmir Himalayas,
38.2 kilometres
S of Jaglot (Zaskar Mountains), Kashmir Himalayas,
49.8 kilometres E of Chilas (Zaskar Mountains), Kashmir Himalayas,
70.1 kilometres SSE of Gilgit (Zaskar
Mountains), Kashmir Himalayas,
142 kilometres N of Srinagar (Jammu & Kashmir), India,
232 kilometres NNE of Islamabad (N.C.T.), Pakistan.
17
people were killed and at 65 were injured in this earthquake.
Many of the injured were admitted to the District Headquarters
Hospital at Chilas. Hundreds of heads of cattle are also believed to
have been perished in landslides. Close to
1,500 people were also left homeless and the
villages of Mohat, Tatu, Jal and Roy Kot have been badly affected in
the Hunza Valley. Traffic was suspended after
landslides swept away 2-kilometres of the Karakoram Highway near
Chilas. Hot water was also discharged at many locations along the
highway following the quake. Tremors from this event were
felt at Gilgit and Skardu. |
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References
01)
International Seismological Centre (ISC),
Berkshire.
02)
National
Earthquake Information Centre (NEIC), Golden, USA.
03)
Harvard Centroid Moment Tensor Solution (HRV), Harvard, USA.
04)
Macroseismic information has been compiled by
the ASC from reports by local media and local NGO personnel.
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