1945_Balochistan_earthquake

1945 Balochistan earthquake

1945 Balochistan earthquake

Natural disaster in Pakistan

The 1945 Balochistan earthquake (Urdu: بلوچستان زلزلہ 1945) occurred in British India at 1:26 PKT on 28 November 1945 with a moment magnitude of 8.1 and a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale.

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See also: 1935 Quetta earthquake and Makran Trench

The earthquake's epicenter was 97.6 kilometers south-southwest of Pasni in Balochistan and a tsunami caused damage along the Makran coastal region. Deaths from the event were reported to be at least 300 and as many as 4,000 people.[5]

Another very large earthquake (7.3 Ms) occurred in nearly the same location on August 5, 1947, but not much is known about the event or its effects.[6]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Rajendran, C. P.; Ramanamurthy, M. V.; Reddy, N. T.; Rajendran, K. (2008). "Hazard implications of the late arrival of the 1945 Makran tsunami". Current Science. 95 (12): 1739–1743.
  2. [2]
    "Significant earthquake". National Geophysical Data Center. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
  3. [3]
    Quittmeyer & Jacob 1979, p. 777
  4. [4]
    USGS (September 4, 2009), PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog, Version 2008_06.1, United States Geological Survey
  5. [5]
    Utsu, T. R. (2002), "A List of Deadly Earthquakes in the World: 1500–2000", International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology, Part A, Volume 81A (First ed.), Academic Press, p. 706, ISBN 978-0124406520
  6. [6]
    Quittmeyer & Jacob 1979, p. 795

Sources

Further reading

  • Lemenkova, Polina (2021), "Relationship between geomorphology of the ocean seafloor with the tectonic structure of the Earth's crust and anomalous geophysical fields: Makran Trench, Arabian Sea", Geology, Geophysics and Environment, 46 (3): 205, doi:10.7494/geol.2020.46.3.205
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