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A light
earthquake (M4.0-4.9 termed as "light")
occurred in the Gir National Park region
in
Gujarat's Saurashtra region, India, on
12 November 2011
at 12:31:51 PM local
time in India. It had a magnitude of ML=4.3. Three people were
injured and
damage occurred in the districts of Amreli and Junagadh in Gujarat. This event is the
strongest aftershock from a
Mw=5.0 earthquake in the same region in
October 2011.
This earthquake was centred
9.4 kms NNW of Mathasulia (Gujarat), India,
14.5 kms SW of Sasan Gir (Gujarat), India,
24.4 kms NE of Veraval (Gujarat), India,
30 kms SSE of Mendharda (Gujarat), India,
50.7 kms S of Junagadh (Gujarat), India,
72.4 kms S of Dhoraji (Gujarat), India,
114 kms SE of Porbandar (Gujarat), India,
141 kms SSW of Rajkot (Gujarat), India,
306 kms SW of Ahmedabad (Gujarat), India.
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One person was badly
injured after jumping from the first floor of a building in Virpur
Gir in Talala taluka, Junagadh district. Another two injuries were
reported, one each in Talala and Lohara Mahajan Wadi in Junagadh
district. Elsewhere in the
district, three wall collapses
were reported from Sangodhra Gir. Objects were knocked off
shelves, roof tiles were dislodged and cracks developed in many
buildings in villages at Maliya Hatina, Keshod
and Kodinar where people ran outdoors. Objects were also knocked off
shelves and houses also developed cracks in Jalandhar Gir. A
portion of the roof of the Panchayat office in Ramlechi Gir
collapsed causing damage to furniture and electronic equipment. Minor
damage occurred in the villages of Bhojdi, Borvav, Chitrod and Veerdi
in the Talala taluka. In Amreli district, objects were knocked off
shelves, roof tiles were dislodged and cracks developed in many
buildings in villages in the Babra, Bagsara and Khamba Gir areas.
People were frightened by this earthquake in the Talala-Sasan Gir-Dhava
Gir
region. The power supply was disrupted. People ran outdoors at
Dhava Gir and at the Kankai Mata Temple in central Gir. Telephone services were
down due to planned engineering work at the local BSNL exchange in
Talala and this communication outage added to the panic. Tremors lasted 30-seconds at Jaipur Gir. Strong tremors
were also felt at Talala but no damage occurred. In the Talala
taluka it was felt at Akolwadi, Bhalchel, Borvav, Chitravad, Dhava,
Hadamtiya and Haripur. In Maliya Hatina taluka it
was felt at Babra, Devgam, Gadodar, Jalandhar, Ladudi and
Matarvania.
Outside the Sasan
Gir region, people were frightened and went outdoors at Amreli,
Bantwa, Bhilka, Bhesan, Dhari, Junagadh, Mendharda, Mamavdhar, Mangrol, Somnath, Sutrapada,
Vanthali, Vasavad, Veraval, Visavadhar and Una. Strong tremors were felt in multi-storied
buildings in Amreli, Junagadh and Keshod. In Amreli it was felt
for 15-20 seconds. The power supply was
disrupted in the Sutrapada taluka in the Veraval area for
10-minutes after the earthquake. Tremors from this earthquake were felt in a number of places in the
Saurashtra region including Ambada, Babriya, Bhavnagar, Bilawad, Chalala, Dhamnagar,
Dhokadwa, Dron, Girgadhaha, Gundala, Itwaya, Jargali, Jasadhar Gir,
Ladi, Liliya, Phatsar,Porbandar, Savarkundla, Tulshishyam, Ugla and Umedpara.
In Bhavnagar it was felt in many parts of the city including in
Anandnagar, Bharatnagar, Devrajnagar, Gayatrinagar, Kaliyabid,
Pirchalla and Subhashnagar. It was also felt in
high-rise buildings in Rajkot. This earthquake was not felt in
Kachchh or Jamnagar districts.
Following this latest earthquake, the local media carried accounts
of a dark, black and warm substance that oozed out of the earth in
the Kamleshwar-Devalia forest in the vicinity of the villages of
Ladudi and Hiranvel.
This is the strongest aftershock since a
Mw=5.0 earthquake in the same region in
October 2011.
Numerous aftershocks have been recorded by the seismological
network run by ISR
Gandhinagar. Prior to the ML=4.3 event on 12 November 2011 (current
page) the strongest aftershock was a M4.1 event at 09:37 AM IST (03:07 UTC)
on 21 October 2011 that was strongly felt in the Talala region.
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