1945 Balochistan Earthquake
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.
Earthquake
The earthquake, with its epicenter 97.6 kilometers south-southwest of Pasni in Balochistan, unleashed a tsunami that 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.
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.
See also
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Significant earthquake". National Geophysical Data Center. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
- ^ Quittmeyer & Jacob 1979, p. 777
- ^ PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog, Version 2008_06.1, United States Geological Survey, September 4, 2009
- ^ 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
- ^ Quittmeyer & Jacob 1979, p. 795
Sources
- Quittmeyer, R. C.; Jacob, K. H. (1979), "Historical and modern seismicity of Pakistan, Afghanistan, northwestern India, and southeastern Iran", Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 69 (3): 773–823
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
External links
- Earthquake and Tsunami of 28 November 1945 in Southern Pakistan – George Pararas-Carayannis
- Search for Eyewitness Accounts and Historical Documents on 1945 Makran Tsunami – UNESCO
- The International Seismological Centre has a bibliography and/or authoritative data for this event.