1947 Assam earthquake

Earthquake in India 1947 Assam earthquake India 1947-07-29 13:43:24 897970 iscgem897970 1947 07 29 18:43:24 7.3 w y 60 km 28.50 N 94.00 E 5 The 1947 Assam earthquake occurred on 29 July at 13:43 UTC with an w y of 7.3 and a maximum EMS-98 intensity of V (Strong). Earthquake The earthquake was located near the border between India and Tibet. Some sources put the epicenter in India, and some put it in Tibet.Significant Earthquake Database https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/form?t=101650&s=1&d=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20060929000601/http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/form?t=101650&s=1&d=1 dead September 29, 2006 National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS) National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA 10.7289/V5TD9V7K 1972 Data Sethttp://aasc.nic.in/course%20material/Disaster/documentation%20on%20past%20disasters.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20170117213454/http://aasc.nic.in/course%20material/Disaster/documentation%20on%20past%20disasters.pdf dead 2017-01-17 Documentation on past disasters, their impact, measures taken, vulnerable areas in Assam AASC Assam Administrative Staff College 9 The released seismic moment was about 1.5×1020 Nm.Instantaneous deformation and kinematics of the India-Australia Plate Geophysical Journal International 168 2 818 2007 Delescluse M. Chamot-Rooke N. 2007GeoJI.168..818D 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03181.x free The mechanism of the earthquake is not well known.Fractal analysis of major faults in India on a regional scale http://www.geosocindia.org/abstracts/2011/sept/sep2k11/j-d-09-00084.pdf P. Sengupta S. K. Nath K. K. S. Thingbaijam S. Mistri 2011 Journal of the Geological Society of India 78 3 229 10.1007/s12594-011-0086-4 2011JGSI...78..226S 129791639 In the Chinese literature, this earthquake was often located around the Nang County, Tibet."青藏块体8级左右地震前中强地震活动图像的相似性演化" by 朱红彬 Damage In Dibrugarh, Jorhat, and Tezpur, there were cracks in walls. Failure of electricity was reported in Guwahati. Other seismicity The border region was struck by the much larger 8.6 w Assam–Tibet earthquake three years later, on August 15, 1950. See also List of earthquakes in 1947 List of earthquakes in India References International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology Part A, Volume 81A Global seismicity: 1900–1999 E. R. Engdahl A. Vallaseñor 2002 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/centennial/centennial.pdf Academic Press First 978-0124406520 679 A Catalog of Felt Intensity Data for 570 Earthquakes in India from 1636 to 2009 http://www.bssaonline.org/content/100/2/562.abstract S. Martin W. Szeliga 2010 Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America Electronic Supplement (table S2) 100 2 562–569 10.1785/0120080328 2010BuSSA.100..562M 2017-12-24 2016-11-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20161112172909/http://www.bssaonline.org/content/100/2/562.abstract dead subscription External links 897970 Assam earthquake, 1947 Category:1947 in China 1947 1947 Category:1940s in Assam Category:1940s in Tibet 1947 Category:1947 disasters in China Category:1947 disasters in India