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Wildfires - Australia

Volcanic eruption - Congo

Torrential rainfall and flood - Indonesia

Earthquake - Turkey

Torrential rains and ensuing flood - Ecuador

Earthquake - Afghanistan (March 3rd)

Earthquake - Afghanistan March 25th)

Earthquake - Taiwan
Catastrophe Report 1
January 1 – March 31, 2002


Earthquake - Afghanistan

Territory:   Afghanistan
Region:   Hindu Kush
Date:   March 25 2002
Event:   Earthquake. Richter Magnitude 6.1; depth 8km
Impact:   800-1000 dead; 4,000 injured; 1,500 homes destroyed; 20,000 families homeless. Economic loss data not yet available
Summary:   The quake was located 155km north of Kabul and 180km SW of Feyzabad, in the Nahrin district of Baghlan province. The most seriously affected area extends in a 12-15km radius about the settlement of Nahrin. Shaking was also felt in Pakistan and Tajikistan. Approximately 90 percent of the town of Nahrin is reported to have been destroyed, with between 50 and 80 percent of buildings damaged or destroyed in surrounding villages. Death tolls have been revised downwards from 1800 to between 800 and 1,000. The epicentre was close to the boundary between the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates, which are converging at 4.5cm per year, in the highly seismic region of the Hundu Kush.. Although less powerful than the March 3rd quake, the very shallow depth ensured that the impact was much more severe
Data sources:   National Earthquake Information Centre (http://neic.usgs.gov/)
Earthquake Information Network (www.eqnet.org/index.asp)
Center for International Disaster Information (www.cidi.org)
Reliefweb (www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf)
Seismo-Watch at: http://www.seismo-watch.com/index.html
Additional sources:  

Asian Disaster Reduction Centre (http://www.adrc.or.jp/latestinfo/View_E.asp?lang=en&KEY=310)

For images go to:

Reuters Photo Gallery at: http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/imagerepository/413477
BBC News at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1896000/1896866.stm

For a special report of the Incorporated Research Institute for Seismology go to: http://www.iris.washington.edu/NEWS/afghan032002.htm