In October 1991, Uttarkashi district was hit by one of the biggest earthquakes in the state’s history, known as the Garhwal earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.8. Uttarakhand’s seismic activity ...
The Bonin Islands earthquake, which ruptured 1,000 kilometers offshore of Japan in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, is one of the deepest and largest earthquakes ever recorded. The earthquake ...