Bhuj Picture Gallery

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All pictures are adapted from the photographs taken by the GSI Officers, unless mentioned otherwise

Wide open cracks showing prominent displacement affecting the Malya-Bhuj road near Surajbadi. This is an example of 'lateral spread' consequent to earthquake induced liquefaction of the underlying marshy tract of Gulf of Kutch.
Total crushing of the ground floors due to failure of load bearing columns in well-built new constructions at Manfera village. The area lies within the epicentral tract corresponding to an intensity of X on MSK-64 scale.

A sand blow in the Rann of Kutch, a manifestation of liquefaction.
Total collapse of a RCC Water Tank at Manfera village.

Total destruction of structures in Vondh village in intensity X
One of the craters through which fountains of water-sand-silt mixture erupted for half an hour. This liquefaction site in located near Lodai village.

Near total destruction suffered by a well-constructed Government building at Adhoi village in intensity X.
Left lateral coseismic fracture showing displacement of the order of 2 cm along the road surface.

Rock slides have occurred even from moderately sloping hills and mounds in intensity X.
The rows of shops at Adhoi village reduced to heaps of rubble. The well - constructed buildings in the back ground are also heavily damaged.

Lateral spreading due to liquefaction leading to submergence of part of rail-road embankment in the Gulf of Kutch near Naolakhi Port.
Ground subsidence due to reactivation of Kutch Mainland fault zone.

[Top] Near total collapse of building in Intensity X Zone at Adhoi village.
[Bottom] Failure of load bearing basal columns leading to complete crushing of ground floor and bringing down the first floor to almost ground level at Samkhiali village in intensity IX.

[Top] A mud-crater formed due to liquefaction of the marshy land of Gulf of Kutch.
[Bottom] Damage to rail-road embankment on account of liquefaction induced "lateral spreading" of ground, near Navlakhi Port in the Gulf of Kutch.

A total extension of approximately 2 km of surface rupture of the Kutch Mainland Fault about 18 km northwest of Bhachau

Acknowledgement : OYO corporation (Japan), RMS, Inc. (USA), RMS (India) and Eduardo Miranda (Stanford University).

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Updated April 26. 2001

	Wide open cracks showing prominent displacement affecting the Malya-Bhuj road near Surajbadi. This is an example of 'lateral spread' consequent to earthquake induced liquefaction of the underlying marshy tract of Gulf of Kutch.		Total crushing of the ground floors due to failure of load bearing columns in well-built new constructions at Manfera village. The area lies within the epicentral tract corresponding to an intensity of X on MSK-64 scale.
	A sand blow in the Rann of Kutch, a manifestation of liquefaction.		Total collapse of a RCC Water Tank at Manfera village.
	Total destruction of structures in Vondh village in intensity X		One of the craters through which fountains of water-sand-silt mixture erupted for half an hour. This liquefaction site in located near Lodai village.
	Near total destruction suffered by a well-constructed Government building at Adhoi village in intensity X.		Left lateral coseismic fracture showing displacement of the order of 2 cm along the road surface.
	Rock slides have occurred even from moderately sloping hills and mounds in intensity X.		The rows of shops at Adhoi village reduced to heaps of rubble. The well - constructed buildings in the back ground are also heavily damaged.
	Lateral spreading due to liquefaction leading to submergence of part of rail-road embankment in the Gulf of Kutch near Naolakhi Port.		Ground subsidence due to reactivation of Kutch Mainland fault zone.