Gujarat earthquake Earthquake 2001 areas affected Bhuj Ahmedabad Gandhinagar kutch Surat Surendra Nagar district Rajkot District Jamnagar and Jodia
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The earthquake which hit Gujarat on 26 January 2001, mainly affected Bhuj, Ahmedabad and the Kutch area.
Hundreds of villages were destroyed in the earthquake.
Measuring a high 7.7 on the MMS (Moment Magnitude Scale), the temblor took about 13,000 – 20,000 lives (including some deaths reported in Pakistan). It flattened buildings and infrastructure, causing damage to the tune of USD 7.5 billion and injuring about 170,000 people.
Gujarat earthquake which occurred on 26th of January in the year 2001 affected the Bhuj Ahmedabad and Gulf of Kutch area of Gujarat.
It is one of the most dangerous earthquake which has occurred in Gujarat in the recent years. It had caused a life of many peoples and many things are destroyed which resulted in downpour of the economic of the state. The result of the earthquake was dead Gujarat was indirect to many other state and the World bank for the development.