1997 Harnai earthquake

1997 doublet earthquake centered in Harnai, Pakistan 1997 Harnai earthquake Pakistan yes doublet 1997-02-27 21:08 1997-02-27 21:30 1013076 1013084 usp0007xx2 usp0007xx7 February 28, 1997 2:08 2:30 w y 7.0Nissen Elliott Sloan Craig 2016 330. s y 6.4Nissen Elliott Sloan Craig 2016 330. 33 km on 29.976 N 68.208 E 8 100 The 1997 Harnai earthquake occurred on February 27 at 21:08 UTC near Harnai, Pakistan, and felt throughout much of central Balochistan,Pakistan 1997 with a magnitude estimated at 7.0 on the w y scale.ehb 1013076 A 2016 studyNissen Elliott Sloan Craig 2016. determined that this was a doublet earthquake, the w6.8 shock that hit 19 seconds later being a continuation of the initial main shock. The largest aftershock was an s y 6.4 shock that hit 22 minutes after the main shock. The earthquake was caused by the collision between the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate.http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/Eq/Global/E970227/ev.html Recent Earthquakes ldeo.columbia.edu 2010-08-11 2011-06-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20110613004300/http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/Eq/Global/E970227/ev.html dead The mountainous villages near Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, suffered most of the damage. Small villages in Sibi District, with mostly adobe dwellings, were completely destroyed, and the town of Harnai alone had 75 fatalities. The total number of deaths due to the earthquakes was over 100.Lee Allyn Davis Natural Disasters https://books.google.com/books?id=CRzMOYIuLJEC 2008 Infobase Publishing 978-1-4381-1878-9 See also List of earthquakes in 1997 List of earthquakes in Pakistan 2008 Ziarat, 2013 Balochistan, and 2021 Balochistan earthquakes – other similar related events References Sources cs2 Pakistan 1997 usp0007xx2 cs2 ehb E. Nissen J. R. Elliott R. A. Sloan T. J. Craig G. J. Funning A. Hutko B. E. Parsons T. J. Wright April 2016 Limitations of rupture forecasting exposed by instantaneously triggered earthquake doublet Nature Geoscience 9 4 330–336 10.1038/ngeo2653 http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/94254/1/nissen-etal-pakistan-doublet-ACCEPTED-titlechange.pdf 2016NatGe...9..330N 28839081 . External links 1013076 Category:Earthquakes in Pakistan Harnai Earthquake, 1997 Category:1997 in Pakistan Category:February 1997 in Pakistan Category:1997 disasters in Pakistan