What the records say
- When
- 4 Apr 1905
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 32.60° N, 76.92° E
- Deaths
- 19000
- Damage musd
- 25
- Houses destroyed
- 100000
- Source quake magnitude
- 7.9
- Runups
- 2
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1905 Kangra earthquake
Disaster in Himachal Pradesh, India
The 1905 Kangra earthquake occurred in the Kangra Valley and the Kangra district of the Himachal Pradesh, in India on 4 April 1905. The earthquake measured 7.8 on the surface-wave magnitude scale and killed more than 20,000 people. Apart from this, most buildings in the towns of Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala were destroyed.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page