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Thursday, 14 December 2006 |
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On Saturday 8 October 2005 a magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred, with its epicentre near Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. In addition to approx 80,000 deaths, thousands of villages were affected over an area of more than 15,000 square km.
A MapAction team was mobilised within 24 hours and was based in the UN's Emergency Response Centre. Our team worked around the clock and completed 80 mapping tasks during the critical first two weeks of the disaster, helping to lay the ground for a UN Humanitarian Information Centre.
MapAction's response to this emergency proved its capacity to play a pivotal role in a massive multi-agency disaster response effort.
“Thank you and your team for the excellent work they did during the immediate
response to the Pakistan earthquake. Your deployment was rapid and the
integration with the UNDAC team and UN Emergency Response Centre was
exemplary. The maps produced by MapAction were of great help in clarifying
what continues to be a confusing situation.”
Arjun Katoch, Chief of Field Coordination Support Section,
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 21 Oct 05
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