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Essay on Bhuj, Gujarat, India, Earthquake
Gujarat is India's westernmost state, and the home of the subcontinent's two great leaders in the movement for independence from British imperialism: India's Mohandas Gandhi and Pakistan's Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
The district of Gujarat is the nation's second-largest industrial area therefore a study of the precedent earthquakes and the seismic background of the area is supreme to developing the state building approach.
The delta zone in Kutch region has a hemispherical topography bounded by wavy system of numerous faults such as Nagar Parkar Fault/Luni-Sukri fault, Island Belt fault/Allah Band Fault, Banni Fault and Kach Mainland Fault. Cambay Rift is the place of the Western part of Gujarat. The NorthEastern part is underlain by the Rajputana fault zone expanding from Mehsana along the Aravallis into Rajasthan. The district has observed numerous upsetting earthquakes in the past together with the 1819 earthquake.
The Gujarat earthquake of degree 7.8 which occurred on 26 January 2001 at 8 h 46 min rocked the entire of Gujarat and bordering areas. Aftershocks continue to plague the residents of the western Indian state of Gujarat more than two weeks after a massive earthquake killed tens of thousands of people. Hundreds of thousands of others have lost their homes and their livelihoods.
Though shelters for the survivors continue in short supply, food and medicine are now plenteous and the people of Gujarat are starting to plan for the future.
This earthquake caused stern damage and killed tens of thousands and left countless homeless. Disasters come in numerous forms, both innate and man made that is earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, locust swarms, livestock plagues, war, and the breakdown of law and order.
The state of Gujarat had been in the throes of a two-year stern drought that had abridged its agricultural production, which is mainly rain-fed, by as much....
