But for some reason – he cannot remember it ten years later – he came out after eight in the morning and slept on a charpoy in his lawn. More than 70 per cent of all casualties were estimated to have occurred in Muzaffarabad, while Bagh, the second-most-affected district, accounted for 15 per cent of the total casualties.Īsad Kiyani, then 27 years old, was sleeping after having sehri inside his home in Kiyani Mohalla.
October 8 too was a result of this activity. The geological activity born out of this collision is the reason for the unstable seismic activity in the region.
Women sift through the rubble of their collapsed house in the main bazaar of Muzaffarabad in the aftermath of the earthquake.-Photo by Arif Mahmood/White StarĮxperts say AJK lies on land beneath which the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates collide. “The destruction caused - we had not imagined it in our wildest dreams,” Kiyani adds. In AJK, Muzaffarabad was the hardest hit, mainly because the epicentre of earthquake was just 19 kilometres (12 miles) to its northeast. It struck around 8:52 am, hitting the northern districts of AJK and the adjoining areas of KP. “Whenever I look at the mountain, I am reminded of that harrowing day,” he says, remembering Octowhen much of northern Pakistan experienced an earthquake that turned towns and villages in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) into graveyards. It is hard to imagine the force that caused this.Īsad Kiyani lives in Kiyani Mohalla of Bandi Mir Samdani, across this mountain, which acquired its current shape due to the devastating earthquake ten years ago, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale. The mountain appears to have been shorn off its inner light-grey core is visible. In the Bandi Mir Samdani neighbourhood of Muzaffarabad, which skirts the Neelum Valley road and marks the end of the town’s municipal limits, it is hard to stop staring at the mountain in the backdrop.
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