September 24, 2019 Earthquake: Mirpur District, Pakistan

Reference #12513:

A powerful 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck northeast Pakistan on Tuesday, badly damaging scores of homes and shops and killing at least 22 people and injuring over 700, officials said.

The quake badly damaged a key road leading to the town of Mirpur in the Pakistan-administered part of Kashmir and adjoining villages, where most of the damage was located. Mushtaf Minhas, information minister in Pakistan-held Kashmir, said 22 people, including women and children, were killed in the quake, mostly due to collapsing roofs and walls.

An Associated Press reporter saw dozens of partially damaged homes along a road leading to Mirpur, where doctors were treating quake victims at open areas outside the city's main government-run hospital due to a shortage of beds.

TV footage also showed cracked roads, damaged homes, shops and vehicles in Mirpur, where a breach at a main canal was submerging villages.

Reference #12514:

The death toll from an earthquake that struck Pakistani Kashmir jumped to 37, officials said on Wednesday

Officials said the extent of the casualties, who included young children, emerged a day after the 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck as authorities were able to reach towns and villages around the region outside main population centres.

Tuesday's earthquake levelled homes and shops and split open roads in an area between the towns of Jhelum and Mirpur to the north, part of which is in Pakistan's portion of the disputed territory of Kashmir.

Reference #12517, 12626:

39 deaths (4 Bhimber, 34 Mirpur, 1 Jhelum), 746 injured, 1756 houses completely damaged, 5709 houses partially damaged, 9 government buildings completely damaged, 132 government buildings partially damaged. Note: effects include aftershocks on 26 Sept and 06 Oct 2019.

Reference #1250:

USD 17,000,000 in total damages, 40 deaths note: no sources cited for deaths