Assam earthquake 1897
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| date | June 12, 1897 | ||
| Magnitude | 8.1 M W | ||
| depth | 32 km | ||
| epicenter | 26 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N , 91 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
| country | India | ||
| dead | around 1500 | ||
The Assam earthquake in 1897 struck Assam , British India on June 12, 1897 , and had a magnitude of approximately 8.1 M w .
It is believed that the focus of the earthquake was 32 km below the earth's surface. In an area of 390,000 km², the masonry of most of the buildings was destroyed and it was felt in an area of 650,000 km² from Burma to Delhi . Many buildings in neighboring Bhutan were badly damaged. There were several aftershocks.
Despite the strength of the quake, the death rate was not very high with 1500 victims, but the damage to property was enormous.
background
The earthquake struck the south-southwest side of the Oldham Fault , which forms the northern boundary of the Shillong Plateau in the Indian Plate . There was a displacement of at least 11 m of the fault, but a maximum dislocation of 16 m was also measured, one of the largest dislocations ever recorded after an earthquake.
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Jugal Kalita: The Great Assam Earthquake of 1897 . Assam portal. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
- ^ SE Hough, Bilham, R., Ambraseys, N. & Feldl, N .: Revisiting the 1897 Shillong and 1905 Kangra earthquakes in northern India: Site response, Moho reflections and a triggered earthquake . In: Current Science . 88, 2005, pp. 1632-1638. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bilham and England, Plateau Pop-up during 1897 Assam Earthquake (PDF; 283 kB), Nature , 410 , 806–809, 2001.
