1869 Cachar earthquake

1869 Cachar earthquake

Local date	January 10, 1869 (1869-01-10)
Magnitude	7.4 Mw[1]
Epicenter	25.5°N 93.0°E / 25.5; 93.0[1]
Areas affected	India
Total damage	Severe[2]
Max. intensity	EMS-98 VII (Damaging)[3]
Casualties	2[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 kilometres (20 mi) long fissure below the Jaintia Hills, situated north of the Sylhet region.^[4]

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

1. Ambraseys, N. N.; Douglas, J. (2004). "Magnitude calibration of north Indian earthquakes". Geophysical Journal International. 159 (1): 179. Bibcode:2004GeoJI.159..165A. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02323.x. ISSN 0956-540X.
2. National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS) (1972), Significant Earthquake Database (Data Set), National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K
3. Martin, S.; Szeliga, W. (2010), "A Catalog of Felt Intensity Data for 570 Earthquakes in India from 1636 to 2009", Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Electronic Supplement (table S2), 100 (2): 562–569, Bibcode:2010BuSSA.100..562M, doi:10.1785/0120080328, archived from the original on 2016-11-12, retrieved 2017-05-20
4. B C Allen (1905). "Physical Aspects". Assam District Gazetteers. Vol. 2. Calcutta: Government of Assam. p. 13.

Further reading

• Davis, W. M. (1883), "The Cachar earthquake of 1869", Science, ns-1 (3): 67, Bibcode:1883Sci.....1...67D, doi:10.1126/science.ns-1.3.67, JSTOR 1759469, PMID 17814146