The Earthquake
Time: Friday May 31, 1935 at 02:33:00 AM
Place: Quetta, Balochistan, British India (Present-Day Pakistan)
Details: Quetta and its neighboring towns lie in the most active seismic region of Pakistan atop the Chaman and Chiltan faults. Movement on the Chaman Fault resulted in an earthquake early in the morning on 31 May 1935 estimated anywhere between the hours of 2:33 am and 3:40 am which lasted for three minutes with continuous aftershocks. Although there were no instruments good enough to precisely measure the magnitude of the earthquake, modern estimates cite the magnitude as being a minimum of 7.7 Mw and previous estimates of 8.1 Mw are now regarded as an overestimate. The epicenter of the quake was established to be 4-kilometres south-west of the town of Ali Jaan in Balochistan, some 153-kilometres away from Quetta in British India. The earthquake caused destruction in almost all the towns close to Quetta, including the city itself, and tremors were felt as far as Agra, now in India.
‹ Earlier in historyFranco-Soviet pactThursday May 2, 1935 Later in history ›Largest aftershockSunday Jun 2, 1935
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