Friday, October 14, 2005
Areas Affected and Extent of Damage in India
Here's what I could gather from various reports. There are conflicting reports on some of these.
Total toll in J&K (India):
- 1300 (Oct 12th)
Affected Towns
Affected Villages:
Total toll in J&K (India):
- 1300 (Oct 12th)
Affected Towns
- Uri (close to LoC)
- Article - Time
113,000 people live in 95 villages around Uri and 75 of those have suffered “90% damage,” by which he means houses damaged beyond being inhabitable, or totally destroyed. “We have fifteen to twenty thousand damaged homes,” he says. “We need 50,000 blankets and 15,000 tents. So far we have two to three thousand blankets and a few hundred tents."
- Tangdar
- Kupwara (mentioned somewhere as a district too)
- Sopore (or Sopur - north of Srinagar)
- Kandi
- 13 people died
- 90% of 350 houses unlivable (all houses damaged)
- Karnah (185 kms from Srinagar)
- Baramullah
- Poonch (Moti Mahal fort collapsed)
Affected Villages:
- Karnah constituency
- Semari (or Seemari)
- Nachian
- Tangdhar (only 200 tents out of the needed 7000 reached)
- Nachin->Seemari, Tangdhar->several hamlets near LoC - 50000 live and are affected
- Chamkote
- 4 areas and 3 hamlets below are more affected but officials stop at Tangdhar, the 3 hamlets are inaccessible
- Pinglaharidal
- Badarkote
- Abkote
- Dringla
- Reala, Murichan, Beadi (hamlets attached to the above 3 villages)
- Chanipora Payeen
- 400 houses collapsed, however only 1 casualty, 10 injured.
- Uri sector
- Gawalan (15kms from town of Uri)
- almost all of the 400 small houses inhabited by 5000 people have collapsed.
- Kamal Kote (few miles from Uri - very close to LoC)
- In Kamalkot, one of the worst affected villages in Uri flanked by steep snow-capped Pakistani ridges, there is a traffic jam of relief supply vehicles, but survivors are still sleeping out in the cold. - BBC (Oct 13th)
- Has already counted 300 dead - Indian Express (Oct 13th)
- 317 out of about 1,000 died - Time Asia (Oct 10th)
- About 600 huts; death toll in Kamalkote alone could be between 600 and 700, if not more - Rediff (Oct 11th)
- Village with highest number of deaths and largest scale of devastation - Indian Express (Oct 11th)
- A group of four Armymen was travelling in a Gypsy van with food and water for people trapped in Kamalkote village. They had to leave behind the vehicle as the road ahead had caved in. There is a 45-minute trek up the slope to reach Kamalkote. The road lies blocked by huge rocks that rolled down the slope during the quake - Indian Express (Oct 10th)
- Chapper (7kms from Uri)
- 4 killed due to collapsed walls - Indian Express (Oct 10th)
- Garkoot (also Garkote)
- home to 20,000 (has mustard and rice fields) - gulf-news.com (Oct 11th)
- with army working overtime to restore communication links, Garkote’s residents feel unloved but not cut off - gulf-news.com (Oct 11th)
- Churanda
- located on a hill and no one has come down yet - Indian Express (Oct 10th)
- Dachi
- Tangdhar (sector?)
- Sultan Tiki (also referred to as Sultan Dhaki? or is this a different village?)
- army delivered supplies (water) - Rediff (Oct 11th)
- need to climb steep slopes for an hour to get to the village - Rediff (Oct 11th)
- Not sure where the following villages are (but they are affected)
- Shahdara - gulf-news.com (Oct 11th)
- Teetwal
- Karna
- Jabla (5kms from LoC) - gulf-news.com (Oct 11th)
- not much information on relief centers
- in general, residents put up makeshift tents at various places
- Biscoe School in Chanipora Payeen
- Govt has been supplying relief materials but couldn't find much info on relief centers.
- makeshift emergency hospital set up on a school ground in Uri - Indian Express (Oct 10th)
- We’ve set up six kitchens in Uri and Tangdhar - Army spokesperson Colonel Hemant Juneja - gulf-news.com (Oct 11th)
- Jamia Masjid
- Rajbagh
- Rajouri Kadal
- Human Aid Society - Baramullah - Rediff (Oct 11th)
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Srihari,
getting a detailed map of the area is not going to be possible man. Topo-geo graphic info of the region is highly regulated.
we will have to make do with whatever info we can get our hands on ...
+ dwiji
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getting a detailed map of the area is not going to be possible man. Topo-geo graphic info of the region is highly regulated.
we will have to make do with whatever info we can get our hands on ...
+ dwiji
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