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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The death toll from a devastating earthquake in
western Pakistan rose to 327 on Wednesday, as soldiers and rescue
workers scrambled to reach victims in one of the country’s remotest
areas.
This week’s magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Tuesday afternoon and was
felt across the country, even causing a small island to rise from the
Arabian Sea. But its force was greatest in a particularly impoverished
part of Baluchistan Province.
Violent tremors felled hundreds of mud-walled houses in six remote
districts in southwestern Baluchistan, killing hundreds and injuring at
least 446, according to the National Disaster Management Authority.
While official estimates put the death toll at 271, officials in the
affected districts said that it had reached 327 and that it was expected
to rise.
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Pakistan on September 24, 2013 at
11:29:48 UTC.
The GCP event was set for 24 hours, beginning at 10:00 Sept 24, UTC.
This includes about 90 minutes prior to the quake.
The result is Chisquare 86520.888
on 86400 df, for p = 0.385 and Z = 0.292.
It is important to keep in mind that we have only a tiny
statistical effect, so that it is always hard to distinguish
signal from noise. This means that every "success" might be
largely driven by chance, and every "null" might include a real
signal overwhelmed by noise. In the long run, a real effect can
be identified only by patiently accumulating replications of
similar analyses.
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