United Press International - Intl. Intelligence - Analysis: Asia quake worse than tsunami?: "Analysis: Asia quake worse than tsunami?
By WILLIAM M. REILLY
UPI U.N. Correspondent
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- U.N. humanitarian officials say relief continues to pour in for the mounting number of victims from the South Asia earthquake and some officials said the destruction of structures may be worse than the Dec. 26, 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami.
The earthquake dead are estimated at near 30,000 with huge swathes of the Himalayas in northern Pakistan still unreachable. Some 176,000 were killed in the tsunami, but another 50,000 are still missing.
The earthquake has destroyed more than 80 percent of structures and buildings in parts of northern Pakistan, officials in the nation's capital, Islamabad, said. Many cities and villages in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and North West Frontier Province, the most affected areas, have been wiped out."
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