A study by an international group of seismologists of Balakot, a town near the center which was levelled by the violent jolting, threw up some worrying results. It showed the ground beneath the town was more porous than previously thought and predicted another tremor could cause the land to be swallowed.
The mayor said no one would be allowed to live within a 10km radius of the town, and a second camp would be kept open while refugees from Balakot are found alternative places to live.
Compensation is being given to all those affected by the earthquake: each family initially received 25,000 rupees (US$562)and now 150,000 rupees is being given to everyone who lost a house. Food is being distributed to villagers until the crops are harvested, and charities are working with the government to provide schooling, healthcare and counselling.
"It is unique to close camps so quickly after a major disaster. Some people remain in them for 20 or more years in some countries. A conscious effort is being made to avoid that, and it is the best solution for people to go back and rebuild their lives, if they can,"said Mia Haglund Heelas, the Pakistan director of the children's charity Plan International.
"We are very scared. We don't want to go back to where we were, because there is nothing there for us and the ground is cracked," Sabiha Sadiq, 35, said.
As she spoke, singing could be heard from the tent school and Sabiha said proudly that her 12-year-old daughter Nazia was top of the class. Many of the children and parents say it is the school they will miss most. For some, especially girls, it is their first time at school.
Abid, 12, and Asama, 10, had never been to school.
Their mother Zojan said: "There is no tradition of going to school in our family."
"There is no school in our village. I never went, nor did my husband," she said.
"When my neighbors on this row of tents talked about school I was not sure. My children were afraid but they spoke to other children who liked it. Now they insist on going when they're ill. I want Abid to be a doctor and Asama a teacher," she said.
Plan International is setting up temporary tent classrooms in the hillside villages in the Siran Valley while working on plans to rebuild 40 primary schools.
More than 2,400 of the 2,570 schools collapsed across the region during the earthquake, crushing thousands of children at their desks.
The charity also wants to set up new secondary schools for girls.
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