1945 Balochistan earthquake

Natural disaster in Pakistan 1945 Balochistan earthquake 1945-11-27 21:56:53 899220 iscgem899220 28 November 1945 1:26 PKT Pakistan 8.1 w y 15 km mi us 24.5 N 63.0 E type:event inline, title British India Makran Coast 15.24 m on 10Quittmeyer Jacob 1979 777 300–4,000 dead The 1945 Balochistan earthquake (bal 1945 بلۏچستان ڈگار جنز 1945 Balochistan ḍagar janz; ur 1945 بلوچستان زلزلہ 1945 Balochistan zalzalah) occurred in British India at 1:26 PKT on 28 November 1945 with a moment magnitude of 8.1 on the Richter scale and a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale. Earthquake 1935 Quetta earthquake Makran Trench 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 s y) occurred in nearly the same location on August 5, 1947, however not much is known about the event or its effects.Quittmeyer Jacob 1979 795 See also 1940s Pakistan Asia Modern history History List of earthquakes in 1945 List of earthquakes in Pakistan References http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=3811&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display https://web.archive.org/web/20181002064550/https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=3811&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display dead October 2, 2018 Significant earthquake National Geophysical Data Center 2013-05-02 Hazard implications of the late arrival of the 1945 Makran tsunami https://www.academia.edu/1762587 C. P. Rajendran C. P. Rajendran M. V. Ramanamurthy N. T. Reddy K. Rajendran Kusala Rajendran 2008 Current Science 95 12 1739–1743 International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology Part A, Volume 81A A List of Deadly Earthquakes in the World: 1500–2000 T. R. Utsu 2002 Academic Press First 978-0124406520 706 PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog https://earthquake.usgs.gov/static/lfs/data/pager/catalogs/ September 4, 2009 United States Geological Survey Version 2008_06.1 Sources Historical and modern seismicity of Pakistan, Afghanistan, northwestern India, and southeastern Iran http://bssa.geoscienceworld.org/content/69/3/773.abstract R. C. Quittmeyer K. H. Jacob 1979 Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 69 3 773–823 Further reading Heidarzadeh Mohammad Satake Kenji A Combined Earthquake–Landslide Source Model for the Tsunami from the 27 November 1945 M w 8.1 Makran Earthquake Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 107 2 2017 0037-1106 10.1785/0120160196 1033–1040 10.7494/geol.2020.46.3.205 Relationship between geomorphology of the ocean seafloor with the tectonic structure of the Earth's crust and anomalous geophysical fields: Makran Trench, Arabian Sea 2021 Lemenkova Polina Geology, Geophysics and Environment 46 3 205 free 2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/364049 free Prizomwala S.P. Vedpathak Chintan Tandon Aashna Das Archana Makwana Nisarg Joshi Neha Geological footprints of the 1945 Makran tsunami from the west coast of India Marine Geology 446 2022 10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106773 106773 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 899220 Pakistan Asia Modern history History 1945 Balochistan 1945 Balochistan Category:History of Balochistan Balochistan 1945 Balochistan Category:November 1945 in Asia Category:1945 in British India Category:1945 disasters in Asia