What the records say
- When
- 30 May 1935
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.5
- Where
- Pakistan
- Coordinates
- 29.50° N, 66.80° E
- Deaths
- 60000
- Damage musd
- 25
- Intensity mmi
- 10
- Depth km
- 33
1935 Quetta earthquake
Magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Baluchistan Agency
An earthquake occurred on 31 May 1935 between 2:30 am and 3:40 am at Quetta, Baluchistan Agency, close to the border with southern Afghanistan. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.7 Mw and anywhere between 30,000 and 60,000 people died from the impact. It was recorded as the deadliest earthquake to strike South Asia until 2005. The quake was centred 4 km south-west of Ali Jaan, Balochistan, British India.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “1935 Quetta earthquake: A 7.1 magnitude earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan, killing 40,000”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la provincia india de Baluchistán se registra un devastador terremoto de 7,7 que deja entre 30000 y 60.000 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page