6.9 mag India

Report:
Many buildings reportedly damaged at Gangtok in Sikkim. Human casualty also feared.

No casualties yet been reported. Some buildings collapsed in darbhanga. Reports Indiatv.

ZeeNews: Sikkim : LandSlide have been reported... Panic gripping in some part of Gangtok

....if I had been there I would never be the same again........

+K for survival........

MOther Earth is building the Himalayas is all.

My thread got pinned?????
Wow, never had this.......thanks to mod....

Yeah, the Indian plate is thrusting beneath the Eurasian plate...

Peace

The Elites like their "conservation areas", don't they? Maybe it hit their bunker. Cool.

Here is a rather interesting article about the formation of the Himalaya range..showing the plates and how they moved in the earth......
[link to library.thinkquest.org]

If a earthquake strikes u in a hilly/mountainous region, ur chances of not getting hurt or injured r quite low. The buildings are built on unstable ground.

If you felt the M6.8 Sikkim earthquake in Nepal, eastern India or Bangladesh please let us know

We are experiencing severe technical difficulties at the moment and unfortunately we cannot do anything to sort this out until Monday morning. The website will therefore not see any significant updates for the next 12-hours. We will be following this event all through the night here at the ASC. Please bear with us.

We very sincerely apologise for being unable to provide you with information in this difficult time, as we have in the past twelve years. We would like to work on this but it is out of our hands - Stacey Martin, ASC Pune

Magnitude revised upwards to Mw 6.9

[link to asc-india.org]

Peace

news

[link to timesofindia.indiatimes.com]

google maps shows a lower resolution sat image for that area - satellite overlay on, click zoom about 8 times.

[link to maps.google.com]

odd.

whoa, ran out of Karma points to give,,,,but will catch you all tomorrow, meanwhile thanks to all here - you are special..........

Report from Forbes.com [link to www.forbes.com]

Is a near 7.0 unusual for India?

There are fears of major damage and possible casualties in the Mangan area in north Sikkim and adjacent parts of Nepal.

Damage is being reported from Gangtkok, Shiliguri, Jalpaiguri, Kalimpong and Darjeeling. Extensive damage in northern Sikkim including landslides. Power supply and telecommunications have been very badly hit in Sikkim. Landslides in Darjeeling and Kalimpong. Two fatalities being reported according to preliminary information. Buildings have collapsed in Katihar district in Bihar. One person killed in Darjeeling and one fatality in Bhagalpur.

[link to asc-india.org]

Peace

Forbes....hhhmmm....it's always about the money...
quote:
"Members of parliament who were debating the national budget in Katmandu, Nepal's capital, ran out of the assembly hall into a parking area. They returned 15 minutes later and resumed their session."

6.9 2011/09/18 12:40:48 27.723 88.064 19.7 SIKKIM, INDIA

Now revised back to a 6.9 on usgs [link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

Peace

this is starting to sound very serious.
For the people in India:

And its dark and nightime there too, right now Arnie...

Peace

Yup was and still there myself, fucking intense is right. Prayers for India, I know how this can be a traumatic experience for the affected that will endure for some time, poor sods..

:hmhm:

Very. But then again, plate boundaries are all over the mountains.

That's the same place where the Brahman priests tried to kill Jeshua when he was escaping to Lhasa.

FS, This thread was doing good until this religious shit starts. Thanks man. Thanks alot.

Latest

1. 6 killed in Nepal
2. Heavy rains currently in Sikkim, land slides bocked major roads.
3. reports of damage to british embassy building in Nepal.
4. some building collapse/damage in Indian state of bihar and west bengal.

Jesus was never in India nor attempted to go there according to the Bible.

There was very severe flooding in India recently:
At least 26 people have died and nearly 200,000 have been evacuated as a result of massive flooding in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, a minister said on Thursday.

He added that a total of 2.1 million people in the state of 40 million people had been affected in some way or another with floodwaters entering their homes or their crops submerged.

[link to www.terradaily.com]

Peace