Hospitals report increasing number of patients of quake trauma ‘Aawha’, roughly translates as “arrived”, is a common call of people in Kashmir as power supply is restored after an outage. This word, however, has taken a new meaning. Now, fear stricken people in Kashmir use it as a warning to shift to safer places during recurring earthquakes. The Valley was rocked by at least 30 earthquakes in 2015-2016, most of them registering a magnitude of around five and some touching the magnitude of seven. The tremors have evoked no response…
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