1869 Cachar earthquake

Earthquake in India 1869 Cachar earthquake India yes 1869 01 10 7.4 w y 25.5 93.0 region:ID_type:event inline,title India Severe VII 2 The 1869 Cachar earthquake occurred on 10 January with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.4 and a maximum EMS-98 intensity of VII (Damaging). Two people were killed and damage was considered severe. The earthquake was felt in Upper Burma, Bihar, Jharkhand, Bengal and Northeast India. Earthquake The cause is said to have been from a 32 km long fissure below the Jaintia Hills, situated north of the Sylhet region.Assam District Gazetteers 2 1905 Calcutta B C Allen Government of Assam 13 Physical Aspects Selected EMS-98 intensities Intensity Locations VII (Damaging) Silchar, Imphal VI (Slightly damaging) Golaghat, Sylhet V (Strong) Dhaka IV (Largely observed) Kolkata III (Weak) Hazaribagh II (Scarcely felt) Midnapore Martin Szeliga 2010 See also List of historical earthquakes List of earthquakes in India References Ambraseys N. N. Nicholas Ambraseys Douglas J. 2004 Magnitude calibration of north Indian earthquakes Geophysical Journal International 159 1 179 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02323.x 0956-540X 2004GeoJI.159..165A free 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 2017-05-20 2016-11-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20161112172909/http://www.bssaonline.org/content/100/2/562.abstract dead subscription 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 Set Further reading The Cachar earthquake of 1869 W. M. Davis William Morris Davis 1883 Science ns-1 3 67 10.1126/science.ns-1.3.67 17814146 1883Sci.....1...67D 1759469 https://zenodo.org/record/1448317 Category:Earthquakes in India Category:January 1869 Category:1869 earthquakes Category:1869 in India Category:1860s disasters in Asia Category:19th-century disasters in India