List of Pakistan Natural Disasters
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The following is a list of natural disasters that have affected Pakistan
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Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
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| Event | Disaster | Location | Date | Affected | Death Toll |
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| |Earthquake/Tsunami | Makran Makran The present day Makran is a semi-desert coastal strip in the south of Sindh, Balochistan, in Iran and Pakistan, along the coast of the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman. The present day Makran derived its name from Maka, a satrap of Achaemenid Empire.... |
325 BCE | |||
| 1935 Balochistan earthquake 1935 Balochistan earthquake The 1935 Balochistan Earthquake occurred on May 31, 1935 at 3:02am at Quetta, Balochistan, British India . The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.7 Mw and anywhere between 30,000 and 60,000 people died from the impact. This ranks as one of the deadliest earthquakes that hit South Asia... |
Earthquake | Quetta Quetta is the largest city and the provincial capital of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan. Known as the "Fruit Garden of Pakistan" due to the diversity of its plant and animal wildlife, Quetta is home to the Hazarganji Chiltan National Park, which contains some of the rarest species of wildlife in the... |
31-May-1935 | 60,000 | |
| 1945 Balochistan earthquake 1945 Balochistan earthquake The 1945 Balochistan Earthquake was an earthquake which occurred in British India at 05:26 PST on 28 November 1945 It was recorded with a magnitude of 8.1 on the Richter Scale.... |
Earthquake/Tsunami | Makran Makran The present day Makran is a semi-desert coastal strip in the south of Sindh, Balochistan, in Iran and Pakistan, along the coast of the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman. The present day Makran derived its name from Maka, a satrap of Achaemenid Empire.... |
27-Nov-1945 | 4,000 | |
| |Flood | 1950 | 2,900 | |||
| |Wind storm | 15-Dec-1965 | 10,000 | |||
| |Flood | Aug-1973 | 4,800,000 | |||
| 1974 Hunza earthquake 1974 Hunza earthquake The 1974 Hunza Earthquake was a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in the rugged and isolated Hunza, Hazara and Swat districts of northern Pakistan at 12:11 UTC on December 28, 1974. The epicentre was located at 35.1 degrees north and 72.9 degrees east. The quake had a shallow focal depth and was followed by... |
Earthquake | Northern Areas | 28-Dec-1974 | 97,000 | 5,300 |
| |Flood | 2-Aug-1976 | 5,566,000 | |||
| |Flood | Jun-1977 | 1,022,000 | 10,354 | ||
| |Flood | Jul-1978 | 2,246,000 | |||
| |Flood | Aug-1988 | 1,000,000 | |||
| |Extreme Temperature | 11-Jun-1991 | 961 | |||
| |Flood | 9-Aug-1992 | 6,184,418 | |||
| |Flood | Sep-1992 | 12,324,024 | 1,334 | ||
| |Wind storm | 14-Nov-1993 | 609 | |||
| |Flood | 22-Jul-1995 | 1,255,000 | |||
| |Flood | 24-Aug-1996 | 1,186,131 | |||
| |Flood | 3-Mar-1998 | 1,000 | |||
| |Drought | Mar-2000 | 2,200,000 | |||
| |Earthquake | Muzaffarabad Muzaffarabad Muzaffarabad is the capital of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, Pakistan. It is located in Muzaffarabad District on the banks of the Jhelum and Neelum rivers... |
8-Oct-2005 | 2.5 million | 78,000 | |
| |Flood | Jul/Aug-2010 | 20,000000 |