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The 2001 Gujarat earthquake, also known as the Bhuj earthquake, occurred on 26 January at 08:46 am IST. The epicentre was about 9 km south-southwest of the village of Chobari in Bhachau Taluka of Kutch (Kachchh) District of Gujarat, India.
Jun 6, 2024 · Bhuj earthquake of 2001, massive earthquake that occurred on Jan. 26, 2001, in the Indian state of Gujarat, on the Pakistani border. The earthquake struck near the town of Bhuj on the morning of India’s annual Republic Day (celebrating the creation of the Republic of India in 1950), and it was felt.
Sep 30, 2013 · Basic Facts. Earthquake: 8:46am on January 26, 2001. Epicenter: Near Bhuj in Gujarat, India. Magnitude: 7.9 on the Richter Scale. Geologic Setting. Indian Plate Sub ducting beneath Eurasian Plate. Continental Drift. Convergent Boundary. Specifics of 2001 Quake. Compression Stress between region’s faults. Depth: 16km.
Jan 26, 2021 · Over 37.8 million people were affected as the devastating earthquake with an epicenter north-east of Bhuj city, destroyed homes, schools, roads, communication systems and power lines. The earthquake was followed by several aftershocks over the next few days.
Jan 10, 2023 · The Republic Day, Bhuj Earthquake of 26 January 2001. The powerful earthquake that struck the Kutch area in Gujarat at 8:46 am on 26 January 2001 has been the most damaging earthquake in the last five decades in India. The M7.9 quake caused a large loss of life and property.
Jan 26, 2021 · Within moments, Bhuj, a town of about 140,000 residents, was reduced to rubble. The earthquake killed at least 25,000 people, and 150,000 were injured. Bhuj was at the epicentre and particularly badly affected. It shook an area within a radius of 400 kilometres and affected some 16 million people.
Jan 30, 2011 · Ten years on from the earthquake that devastated the north-western Indian state of Gujarat, the BBC finds an economic powerhouse has risen from the rubble of this once neglected backwater.
The Mw 7.7 Bhuj earthquake occurred in the Kachchh District of the State of Gujarat, India on 26 January 2001, and was one of the most damaging intraplate earthquakes ever recorded.
It was the worst disaster to have struck India in the last 50 years. The Kutch region forms a crucial geodynamic part of the western continental margin of the Indian sub-continent, and falls in the seismically active Zone-V outside the Himalayan seismic belt.
Jan 26, 2001 · An earthquake of magnitude Mw 7.6 (USGS) on 26 January 2001 left a trail of death and devastation in Gujarat, one of India's front-runners in industrial prosperity. The earthquake caused a heavy toll of about 20,000 dead, more than 60,000 injured, 200,000 people homeless, and more than U.S. $2 billion in losses.
