Title NATURAL DISASTERS Date-wise Events October 08, 2005 - EARTHQUAKE - KASHMIR - 2005 Description It was centered in the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir near the city of Muzaffarabad, and also affected the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It registered a moment magnitude of 7.6 making it similar in size to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the 1935 Quetta earthquake, the 2001 Gujarat earthquake, and the 2009 Sumatra earthquakes. As of 8 November, the government of Pakistan's official death toll was 75,000. About 1400 casualties were reported in the Jammu and Kashmir.

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