20 September 2008

Marriot Hotel bomb, Islamabad, Pakistan

Just a short aside from landslides. In January 2006 I attended a conference organised by the Geological Survey of Pakistan. The theme was to gain an understanding of the lessons learnt from the Kashmir earthquake – the proceedings are available online here. The conference was fascinating but desperately sad as speaker after speaker showed images of the destruction associated with the earthquake. Today the Marriott hotel was senselessly bombed and …

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