Earth quake.........
2001 Gujarat earthquake, IndiaAn earthquake of 7.7 magnitude hit Gujarat on January 26, 2001 and lasted for over 2 minutes. The Bhuj earthquake, as it came to be known, left utter destruction in its wake, killing over 30,000 people and destroying 400,000 homes.
The 2001 Gujarat earthquake, also known as the Bhuj earthquake, occurred on 26 January, India's 52nd Republic Day, at 08:46 am IST. The epicentre was about 9 km south-southwest of the village of Chobari in Bhachau Taluka of Kutch District of Gujarat, India. Wikipedia
Date: 26 January 2001
Magnitude: 7.7 Mw; 8.0 Ms; 6.9 mb
Location: Gujarat
Areas affected: India, Pakistan
Casualties: 13,805–20,023 dead; ~ 166,800 injured
Depth: 16 kilometres (10 mi)
ISC event: 1763683.
How many people died in the small village of Kutch?
The death toll in the Kutch region was 12,300. Bhuj, which was situated only 20 km away from the epicentre, was devastated. Considerable damage also occurred in Bhachau and Anjar with hundreds of villages flattened in Taluka of Anjar, Bhuj and Bhachau.
What was the cause of the Bhuj earthquake?
According to geologists, the earthquake occurred at the convergent boundary between the two tectonic plates making Gujarat the epicentre of the earthquake. Even today the continuous continental collision of the plate boundary between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian plate governs the plate tectonics of the region.
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why i am talking of this
incident.
They don't usually last that long do they? WOW!