M-da Just forgot to add...regarding the fatalities of 1950 earthquake.!
As a result of the great earth quake, a hill broke and blocked the river Subansiri creating an artificial lake at the current dam site. The lake gave away after 10 days, I think. It rolled down causing a flash flood in our area, (gogamukh an dbordoloni).. its referred to as the 'boliya pani' of 1950s.. my grand father told me how he saved his family of 12 children making a raft of 'bhimkol' quickly and tying it to a huge banyan tree..some 15 missing (miri) villages downstream were washed away and toll must have been huge. There is an eye witness to this sordid saga. *Dr Lakhi Chintey of Shillong*, whose mother and infant sister were washed away before his eyes. He narrated me the incident with tearful eyes, that night still haunts him. That time media was not what it is today, and these deaths must have gone unreported. -mkd On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Manoj Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > The earthquake of Sichuan is only 7.8 richter and already 22000 are dead. > > Guwahati has partly become a concret jungle and most of the construction > doesn't have the minimums to withstand the kind of earthquake that recurs in > our region. > > > > 1897: > > The great Assam earthquake of 1897 (8.7 richter) is the largest known > Indian > intraplate earthquake. It raised the northern edge of the Shillong Plateau > by more than > 10 m, resulting in the destruction of structures over much of the Plateau > and > surrounding areas, and causing widespread liquefaction and flooding in the > Brahmaputra and Sylhet floodplains. > > 1950: > This "Independence Day" earthquake was the 6th largest > earthquake of the 20th century. Though it hit in a mountainous region > along India's international border with China, 1500 people were killed > and the drainage of the region was greatly affected. The resultant floods > were the cause of most of the fatalities aftermath of this earthquake. The > initial shock was followed by thousands of aftershocks, some of which > were big earthquakes enough to be reckoned. > It had a magnitude of 8.7 and struck a relatively sparsely populated > region along the Indo-China border. This earthquake is often referred to > as the "Assam Earthqake of 1950". > The earthquake occurred at 19:39 pm on August 15, 1950. It was felt > throughout north-eastern India and in many parts of eastern India. It was > also felt throughout Bangladesh, Bhutan and Myanmar. Damage > occurred in the entire region as far as Kolkata. It was felt across a wide > area of the subcontinent, over an area totalling 4.5 million square miles. > > -- > Manoj Kumar Das > C 172 GF, Sarvodaya Enclave > New Delhi 17 India > 0091 9312650558 (HP) 9910972654 > > > > -- > Manoj Kumar Das > C 172 GF, Sarvodaya Enclave > New Delhi 17 India > 0091 9312650558 (HP) 9910972654 -- Manoj Kumar Das C 172 GF, Sarvodaya Enclave New Delhi 17 India 0091 9312650558 (HP) 9910972654 _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
