Pakistan earthquakes

M7.6 earthquake 21 km NNE of Muzaffar?b?d, Pakistan

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck 21 km NNE of Muzaffar?b?d, Pakistan on Sat, Oct 8, 2005, 8:50 AM GMT+5 (03:50 UTC), 26 km (16 mi) below the surface.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 7.6 (mwc), major
Local time: Sat, Oct 8, 2005, 8:50 AM GMT+5
UTC: 2005-10-08 03:50:40 UTC
Depth: 26.0 km (16.2 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 34.539° N, 73.588° E
Region: Pakistan
Felt reports: 417
Strongest shaking: IX, violent shaking
Tsunami flag: No
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Deaths and damage

From NOAA NCEI’s Significant Earthquake Database (record 6778), matched to this event by time and place.

Deaths: 76,213
Injuries: 146,599
Damage: $6.7 billion
Houses destroyed: Many (101 to 1,000)
Houses damaged: Many (101 to 1,000)

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

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Shaking

The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.

Strongest estimated: IX, violent shaking
Peak ground acceleration: 135.9% of gravity
Peak ground velocity: 4.6 cm/s
Map: Automatic

USGS ShakeMap: estimated shaking intensity around the epicenter — Estimated shaking intensity. Map: USGS ShakeMap.

Did you feel it?

417 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was IX, violent shaking.

Fault motion and ground failure

How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.

Faulting: Reverse (thrust)
Moment magnitude: 7.6 Mww
Nodal plane 1: Strike 327°, dip 30°, rake 110°
Nodal plane 2: Strike 124°, dip 61°, rake 78°
Landslide alert: Red
Liquefaction alert: Red

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Depth from: OPERATOR_ASSIGNED
Station coverage gap: 21°
Stations used: 724

Nearest places

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 4.6 and up: 145 in the 60 days after this one and 0 in the 30 days before it.

After

The first 60 of 145.

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000e12e (also filed as us2005dyae, choy20051008035040, gcmtc200510080350a, duputel200510080350a, gcmt20051008035040, atlas20051008035040, iscgem7703077). Read Tue, Sep 29, 2026, 5:00 AM UTC.