Earthquake Question----QUICK-----ANSWER IT IN ENGLISH (20)

1. The appearance of Afghanistan earthquakes are not uniform. It appears all across the whole region. October 8, 2005, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit eastern Afghanistan. On April 6, 2004, eastern province of Badakhshan in Afghanistan experienced a 6.6 magnitude earthquake. On March 26, 2002, earthquake struck the northern province of Baghlan in Afghanistan. In May 1998, another earthquake struck the northern and northeastern province of Takhar and Badakhshan. In that same year in Feb, another earthquake struck Takhar.

2. Afghanistan is located on Eurasian plate, which is close to the boundary of crust collision with the Arabian Plate and lies on the traverse plate boundary with the Indian plate. Therefore, large amount of pressure build up underneath the crust that needs to be released in form of earthquakes. The more active tranverse boundary with Indian plate causes more earthquakes in these few years. However, the Arabian Plate boundary also moves at a rate of 22mm/year when compared to approximately 40mm/year in the Indian plate.

Actually, Q3 and Q4 is related...
3. In March 2002 earthquake, more than 2000 people were killed, 4000 people had been injured with at least 20000 people left homeless.
May 1998 earthquake, 5,000 were killed.
Feb 1998 earthquake 4500 were killed.

4. Earthquake causes uncountable damamge to the area. This is because once an earthquake struck, it destroyed most of the transport network, which was vital for food and medical supplies. Those who were injured or left homeless did not have access to clean water and no medicine was avaliable directly to them after the quake. As most of the Afghanistan population depends on aid relief even "BEFORE" the quake, the impoverished communities was not able to help themselves after the quake (as they did not have excess food storage in the country to assist themselves once a disaster strike). Their mud-brick built homes was not stable enough to fight the earthquake.... Therefore, as earthquake struck their mud-brick houses became : rubbles, which kind of bury most of those alive...

2006-11-01 16:33:28 補充：
Just wondering..... Your topic is on earthquakes in Afghanistan, not War in Afghanistan, right??

Afghanistan is located in the heart of Central Asia. The country is officially named the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashtu: D'Afghanistan Islami Jamhuriat; Dari: Jamhuriat-i Islami-i Afghanistan).

The 2001 war in Afghanistan started in October 2001, in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, marking the beginning of its War on Terrorism campaign, seeking to oust the Taliban and find al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The Afghan Northern Alliance provided the majority of forces, while the U.S. and fellow NATO members the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Germany, along with Australia, Pakistan, and New Zealand, provided support. The U.S. military name of the conflict was Operation Enduring Freedom.1

The officially-stated purpose of the invasion was to target al-Qaeda members, and to punish the Taliban government in Afghanistan which had provided support and haven to al-Qaeda.


about the death:

According to Marc W. Herold's Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing at least 3700 and probably closer to 5000 civilians were killed as a result of U.S. bombing[8]. Herold's study omitted those killed indirectly, when air strikes cut off their access to hospitals, food or electricity. Also exempt were bomb victims who later died of their injuries. When there were different casualty figures from the same incident, in 90% of cases Professor Herold chose a lower figure.

Some people, however, dispute Herold's estimates. Joshua Muravchik of the American Enterprise Institute and Carl Conetta of the Project on Defense Alternatives question Herold's heavy use of the Afghan Islamic Press (the Taliban's official mouthpiece) and claim tallies provided them were suspicious. Conetta also claims statistical errors in Herold's study[9] [10]. Conetta's study puts total civilian casualties between 1000 and 1300 [11]. A Los Angeles Times study put the number of collateral dead between 1,067 and 1,201.

Click in this webstie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_war_in_Afghanistan