Last night I called my family in Karachi and they told me that scientists have cautioned about an earthquake in Karachi area (or a quake that will hit Karachi too) in November/December. Has anyone else heard about such prediction (estimation)?
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^^ what? seriously? is that just one scientist ? my family is living in apartments in karachi. when did they predict the earthquake to hit? what scale?
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Thats what I'm trying to find out, if anyone else has read such report/article please let us know.
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Karachi is located close to 4 active tectonic fault lines, any of which could be the cause of a major earthquake.
I fear that a large earthquake there could be devastating. Pakistan has the same problem that happened in Turkey with the big earthquake there in 1999 - corruption allows builders to get away with making unsafe buildings.
I read an article where a man at the scene of a collapsed school in Kashmir said that all of the private schools in the area were still standing but the government schools were all destroyed, because builder paid local government officials bribes in order to make sub-standard buildings for the govt schools.
We all know what the state of building in Karachi was like....how many unsafe apartment blocks do we have there?
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Karachi is NOT located on any of the major earthquake plates in the region. I have not heard of any major earthquakes in Karachi ever. This recent quake and many others in the past 20 years in Pakistan have been in NWFP because it lies in the vicinity of the two plates - The Indian Plate and The Eurasian Plate.
I would be very surprised if there is another one in Southern Pakistan.
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Maddy, have you seen a recent article suggesting an upcoming quake in Karachi (or nearby)?
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This article below suggests that Karachi does lie close to THREE tectonic plates and has seen earthquake long time ago.
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There are different categories of plates. The more rigid ones are in NWFP. Karachi due to it's proximity to water has soft plates that don't rub against each other as rigidly as the ones in the Himalayas.
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One of my favourite things about me me is the way that I’m always right 
http://www.dawn.com/weekly/cowas/990829.htm
*…the densely populated (over 12 million) city of Karachi sits very close to the confluence of three major tectonic plates: the Indian Plate, the Arabian Plate, and the Eurasian Plate. According to geologists, four active fault lines have been identified in the vicinity, namely Karachi-Jati, Allah Bund-Rann of Kutch, Surjan-Jhimpir, and PAB. Over the last sixty years, on two occasions in 1945 and 1985, earthquakes of lesser intensity have struck this city. So far, we have been lucky. *
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Do you know the difference between faults and actual plates? Mr not-know-it-all-and-cutting-and-pasting-from-dawn? :D
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Read this and interpret for the common mass here 
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Quit bickering guys and look at this.
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Faults are boundaries between plates where the plates are moving in different directions.
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from the link Kaleem provided
yeah it could be november or december or 2010 but it doesnt have to be Karachi. its more likely in where the Eurasian plate is intersecting the Arabian plate (the current affected area).
in California we have earthquakes all the time, there is San Andreas fault that runs up the state. But earthquake in Southern California doesnt precede with an earthquake in Northern California and vice versa.
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Currently earthquake predicting is good for two things one is to create panic. The second thing it can do is strengthen building codes.
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^ Add to that learn how to build buildings from the Japanese. I believe they are the best in the business when it comes to dealing with earthshakes.
Sincerely,
Captain Lota
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True, just look at the Kansai International Airport for proof of that.
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but that cost lots $$$$ and giving current state of pakistan...most of people are poor..
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^
Building techniques can be used to make it less devastating though, not earthquake proof, but less destruction.
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^ I think more than $$$$, it requires use of brain cells (to innovate and design intelligently) and integrity (to stick to building codes in quake-prone areas).