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A boy looks over the rubble in the old part of Muzaffarabad, an area badly hit by the earthquake.
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South Asia Earthquake
October 8, 2005

Countries Affected:
Pakistan, India and Afghanistan

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A woman in Muzaffarabad carries supplies past a neighborhood of destroyed homes.

28,000 square kilometers (10,810 square miles)
were affected by the earthquake

—United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs



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Ruins of buildings on the hill where old Balakot stood before the earthquake
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Local people visiting the ruins of old Balakot. The man on the left lost his youngest son in a school that collapsed near the old town. The man in the center (foreground) also lost his son in the school and his mother in his house that collapsed on this hill. The man on the far right lost his wife and two sisters.

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A man carries steel extracted from destroyed buildings in Balakot.

1.1 million jobs were lost —International Labor Organization



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Demolition of a building damaged during the earthquake in the old city center of Muzaffarabad.
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A local restaurant with damaged walls in the center of Balakot.
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Three girls in the village of Sangar (also hit by the earthquake) near Balakot.
73,338 people were killed and 69,412 were seriously injured
—Government of Pakistan

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Men gather in the ruins of a destroyed house in the old part of Muzaffarabad.
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