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EERI Preliminary Reconnaissance Reports

• SECOND REPORT--BY EERI RECONNAISSANCE TEAM (Feb 2006 Newsletter insert) (Saif Hussain, Team Leader; Ahmed Nisar, Bijan Khazai, Grant Dellow)

• FIRST REPORT (December 2005 Newsletter insert) (on Pakistan by Dr. A. Naeem, Dr. Qaisar Ali, Muhammad Javed, Zakir Hussain, Amjad Naseer, Syed Muhammad Ali, Irshad Ahmed,Muhammad Ashraf, Charles Scawthorn; on India by Durgesh C. Rai and C.V.R. Murty)

• Initial Reconnaissance Report from Pakistan, prepared by EERI member Charles Scawthorn, Kyoto University

• Initial Reconnaissance Report from Indian Kashmir, prepared by Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

• Survey Report from Indian Kashmir, prepared by EERI member Randolph Langenbach

Reports from the Field

• Reconnaissance Report from Earthquake Engineering Center Department of Civil Engineering NWFP UET Peshawar

• Preliminary Reconnaissance Report from European Earthquake Investigation Field Team (EEFIT)

• United Nations Assessment Reports, (including UN Early Recovery Framework)

• The Kashmir Earthquake of October 8, 2005. A Quick Look Report (Mid-America Earthquake Center)

• Preliminary Damage and Needs Assessment, World Bank and Asian Development Bank

• Initial Reconnaissance Report from colleagues at the Earthquake Engineering Center at the Department of Civil Engineering, N-W.F.P. University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan

• October 8 Kashmir Earthquake: Impact on Geoenvironment and Structures in the Karnah and Uri Tehsils of Kashmir (India), prepared by Centre for Disaster Studies and Research, University of Jammu, Jammu (India)

• Preliminary Report on the 8th October 2005 Kashmir Earthquake in Jammu and Kashmir, India, prepared by Indian Insitute of Technology, Roorkee

• Observations on Situation in the Kagan Valley, Pakistan, by Architect Tom Schacher, Member of the Swiss Society for EQ Engineering and Structural Dynamics

General Information

• European Commission: Joint Research Centre, Pakistan Earthquake
  • collates information related to the follow-up activities performed by JRC and other international institutions. Contains useful maps, links.
• Relief Information System for Earthquakes-Pakistan
  • web site created to track damage information in villages, also contains maps and links to Government of Pakistan sites.
• ReliefWeb, U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
  • Website includes latest updates, maps, who's working there
• NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan
  • Cowasjee Earthquake Study Centre
• Islamic Relief
  • Information on Response and Relief
• U.S. Agency for International Development
  • Updates and fact sheets
• Amateur Seismic Centre, Pune, India
  • Information on felt reports from mainshock and aftershock

• Information on earthquake from Geological Survey of India
• Report from Geological Survey of India on the earthquake
• A Segment of Main Boundary Thrust Triggered October 8, 2005 Earthquake, Pakistan, by Ahmad Hussain, Former Deputy Director General, Geological Survey of Pakistan
• Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Consortium
  • View seismograms from various stations
• Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado
  • Information on earthquake from Geologist Roger Bilham's site, puts the earthquake in context

• Photos from Virtual Clearinghouse at Kyoto University (over 1200 images)
  • Virtual Clearinghouse
• BBC news
  • Photos
• Cowasjee Earthquake Study Centre, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan (from http://www.neduet.edu.pk)
  • Photos from Balakot, Islamabad and Abbotabad
  • Before and After Satellite Images
• United Nations Development Programme, India
  • Slideshow from October 10th, in pdf