Earthquakes in India

Abstract

The Times correspondent from Bombay reports that several earthquake shocks have been felt daily between July 5 and July 9, with epicenters near Paliad, a town 64 miles from Bhavnagar, near the west of the Gulf of Cambay. Paliad is being deserted by its population of approximately 5,000 in consequence of these shocks. This area cannot be said to. have been greatly affected by earthquake shocks in the past, and there is no record of one at all in Miss E. F. Bellamy's catalogue for the years 1913–1930. There was some destruction of property in this district at the time of the Great Cutch earthquake of June 16, 1819, which was attended by what was probably the greatest vertical surface displacement resulting from any earthquake in India. The ground to the north was uplifted by 15–20 ft., whilst that to the south was depressed between 10 and 15 ft. When further reports come to hand, it will be interesting to see whether this epicenter is a south-easterly migration of the great earthquake of more than a century ago, or whether it is purely a local surface phenomenon.