Gujarat Earthquake of 26 January 2001, Mw 7.7

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Gujarat Earthquake of 26 January 2001, Mw 7.7

Fifteen years ago, on January 26, 2001, at 8:46 a.m local time, a catastrophic earthquake with magnitude of Mw=7.7 occurred in Gujarat, west of India. The epicenter of the earthquake was located at the 23.6N and 69.8E coordination. The Gujarat earthquake (also known as the Bhuj earthquake) caused at least 20,005 causalities, 166,836 injured people and approximately 339,000 destroyed and 783,000 damaged buildings in the Bhuj-Ahmadabad-Rajkot area and other parts of Gujarat. The event was widely felt throughout northern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and western Nepal. The 2004 Gujarat earthquake happened due to a thrust fault motion in the border of Indian-Eurasian plate collision at 16 km shallow depth. It was one of the special and complex events which lasted for about 2 minutes and a small event was followed by a larger one about 2 seconds later.

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Dehno (Assaluyeh) Earthquake of 22 January 1950, Mw 5.9

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Dehno (Assaluyeh) Earthquake of 22 January 1950, Mw 5.9

The earthquake, centered in a small coastal valley southeast of Assaluyeh, damaged villages extending along about 50km between Assaluyeh and Gavbandi. Its magnitude was estimated at 5.9 The instrumental epicentre recalculated by Nowroozi (1971) is located at 27°.22’ N, 53°.04’E at the southeastern end of t he macroseismic region. The villages of Dehno, Akhand, Askari, Khiaru, Bostanu, Einossadeh, and Berkeh Dogan were completely destroyed, and a total of about 30 people were killed. Assalu, Daruk, Kolluz, Chah Mobarak, Maru, Dozdoneh, Nahir, Bandu, Amani, Gavbandi and Faryab were severely damaged. Many rockfalls occurred in the mountains bordering the valley in the northeast. Minor damage was reported from Taheri, and the shock was strongly felt in Kangan and Bushehr. Eleven aftershocks were felt in the epicentral region on the same day as the mainدshock. The strongest aftershock occurred on the 2nd of February at about 8 p.m. (local time).

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Boznabad Earthquake of 16 January 1979, Mw 6.5

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Boznabad Earthquake of 16 January 1979, Mw 6.5

The destructive Boznabad earthquake of 16 January 1979 occurred at 13:20 local time (09:50 UTC) in east Iran. The earthquake had magnitude of Mw=6.5 with 11 km depth and its epicentral coordination was located at 33.9N and 59.46E. The event was triggered due to the Boznabad fault activity which had a Mechanism of Reverse/N–S right-lateral.

The most important worldwide earthquakes (M>7) of this day

Date Time Y X Depth Mw Region Refrence
1956/1/16 23:37:45 -0.727 -80.213 20 7 near the coast of Ecuador USGS
1961/1/16 7:20:13 36.121 141.758 30 7.2 near the east coast of Honshu, Japan USGS
1961/1/16 12:12:30 36.226 141.815 30 7 near the east coast of Honshu, Japan USGS
1979/1/16 9:50:10 33.897 59.472 33 6.7 Mojnabad Amb