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The hillside town of Balakot, comprising 12 union councils with a population of 30,000 people, was completely destroyed by the earthquake on October 8,2005. The [[Fault (geology)|fault line]] passes through Balakot. It follows the hilly area to the north up to [[Allai Tehsil|Allai]] and leads to the [[Bagh, Azad Kashmir|Bagh]] in [[Azad Jammu and Kashmir]] from the villages of Balakot. This fault line, the Balakot-Bagh fault, is said to be the source of the Kashmir earthquake.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eeri.org/lfe/pdf/kashmir_eeri_2nd_report.pdf|title=Learning from Earthquakes: The Kashmir Earthquake of October 8, 2005: Impacts in Pakistan|date=February 2006|website=EERI|access-date=20 June 2018}}</ref> The estimated death toll from the Balakot town and the districts in the affected Kashmir area was between 73,000, with some sources stating it to be more than 80,000.<ref name="open.edu">{{Cite web|url=http://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/science/geology/the-balakot-earthquake-ten-years-on|title=The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on – OpenLearn – Open University|website=open.edu|access-date=2018-06-19}}</ref>