Quake leaves thousands homeless in Tajikistan

[StarfarerBill]

Source: CBC

About 20,000 people in Tajikistan were left homeless by an earthquake that hit a mountainous region of the impoverished Central Asian nation, officials said Sunday.

No deaths were reported after the magnitude 5.1 quake struck the Pamir Mountains on Saturday, the Emergency Situations and Civil Defence Committee said.

The temblor levelled hundreds of mud-brick houses in several villages in the Gorno-Badakhshansky region. The quake also cut electricity supplies and communications and blocked the main road between the regional centre, the town of Vanch, and nearby villages.

Earthquakes are fairly common in the mountains of Tajikistan, one of the poorest of the former Soviet nations.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/01/03/tajikistan-quake.html

[Arctic Dave]

1. Since our military is over in the ME to help the savages, I'm sure we are falling over ourselves

to help these people out.

[niyad]

2. k and r--thank you for this

[juajen]

3. Hey, I believe this is the T in the TAPI pipeline?

You know, the reason we are in A (Afghanistan) and P (Pakistan)? I guess you all know what the I stands for, yes?

[winyanstaz]

4. I hope everyone makes it alright...

This time of the year it is especially hard to be homeless.
Speaking of homeless...I have read that 4 homeless people have died in Chicago from the cold. In America...land of the not doing so damned good.
Those people in the quake area are going to need a lot of help..shelter, food etc.
To have that many homeless in a quake means a lot of injuries too.
I hope they get some help real quick.