Disaster response Pakistan

Kashmir Earthquake

2005
Published on Oct 09, 2005 02:00 AM  -  Updated on Jul 09, 2019 04:28 PM
On 8th October 2005, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India suffered a 7.6 magnitude earthquake. The main affected areas are northwestern India, eastern Afghanistan and especially northern Pakistan. In Pakistan, heavy relief intervention is required, with primary assessments showing the need for a telecommunications service.

General information

Context: Earthquake
Start date: 09/10/2005
End date: 11/11/2005
Areas of intervention:

  • Muzaffarabad district
  • Balakot district
  • Bagh district
  • Batgram district
  • City of Mansehra
  • City of Islamabad

Activities:

  • Telecom centres
  • Advices to NGOs
  • Humanitarian calling operations

Key figures

3 telecoms centres
67 organisations supported
3,150 MB of data transferred
42 hours of calls for organisations
2,174 families benefited of calls
88 hours of calls for population

Funding

With the support of