Question

the 2017 earthquake in India 200 words

Answer 1

The 7.9 Richter earthquake struck at 2 AM when the city was asleep. It lasted barely 20 seconds, but its destructive power flattened almost 60% of the capital, killing half the city’s 16 million population. First to collapse were the illegal colonies of East Delhi and the trans-Jamuna and the multiple builder high-rises in NOIDA and Gurgaon, many built with local sanction but cleared without the requisite structural inputs for earthquake protection. With little preparedness and inadequate machines and supplies, disaster teams were slow to react; as fires from gas leaks raged across the city, hospitals were ill equipped to deal with the injured and homeless, who spent the night huddled in parks. Uber cabs were seen ferrying dead bodies for mass cremation in what was once Connaught Place...

The imaginary but painful scenario comes closer to reality each time the earth rumbles. The Nepal quake left a trial of destruction with over 7,000 dead, and a grim reminder to its Southern neighbour that the destructive power of a similar earthquake will be abnormally higher when urban populations is a hundred fold Nepal’s. India’s Zone 4 and 5 -- including Delhi, Lucknow, Varanasi, Patna and the mountain belt — are home to some of the densest cities on earth.

Answer 2

the earthquake of 2017 year was came on 6th February in Mainly Uttrakhand. about a magnitude of 5.1 earthquake a strip India at death of 16.1 KM near Rudraprayag district in the state of Uttarakhand