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{{Short description|Earthquake in India}}
{{Infobox earthquake
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|magnitude          = 7.4 {{m|w|link=y}}<ref name=Ambraseys/>
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|countries affected = [[India]]
|damage             = Severe<ref name=NGDC/>
|intensity          = {{EMS-98|VII}}<ref name=Martin/>
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The '''1869 Cachar earthquake''' occurred on 10 January with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.4 and a maximum EMS-98 intensity of VII (''Damaging''). Two people were killed and damage was considered severe. The earthquake was felt in [[Upper Burma]], [[Bihar]], [[Jharkhand]], [[Bengal]] and [[Northeast India]].

==Earthquake==
The cause is said to have been from a {{convert|32|km}} long fissure below the [[Jaintia Hills]], situated north of the [[Sylhet region]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Assam District Gazetteers|volume=2|year=1905|location=[[Calcutta]]|author=B C Allen|publisher=[[Government of Assam]]|page=13|chapter=Physical Aspects}}</ref>{{clear}}

{| class="wikitable" style="float: right; text-align: center; font-size:90%;"
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| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | Selected [[European macroseismic scale|EMS-98]] intensities
|-
! Intensity !! Locations
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| VII (''Damaging'')
| [[Silchar]], [[Imphal]]
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| VI (''Slightly damaging'')
| [[Golaghat]], [[Sylhet]]
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| V (''Strong'')
| [[Dhaka]]
|-
| IV (''Largely observed'')
| [[Kolkata]]
|-	
| III (''Weak'')
| [[Hazaribagh]]
|-
|-
| II (''Scarcely felt'')
| [[Midnapore]]
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align: center;" | <small>{{harvnb|Martin|Szeliga|2010}}</small>
|}

==See also==
*[[List of historical earthquakes]]
*[[List of earthquakes in India]]

== References ==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name=Ambraseys>{{Cite journal|last=Ambraseys|first=N. N.|authorlink=Nicholas Ambraseys|last2=Douglas|first2=J.|date=2004|title=Magnitude calibration of north Indian earthquakes|journal=Geophysical Journal International|volume=159|issue=1|page=179|doi=10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02323.x|issn=0956-540X|bibcode=2004GeoJI.159..165A|doi-access=free}}</ref>
<ref name=Martin>{{citation|title=A Catalog of Felt Intensity Data for 570 Earthquakes in India from 1636 to 2009|url=http://www.bssaonline.org/content/100/2/562.abstract|first=S.|last=Martin|first2=W.|last2=Szeliga|year=2010|journal=Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America|series=Electronic Supplement (table S2)|volume=100|number=2|pages=562–569|doi=10.1785/0120080328|bibcode=2010BuSSA.100..562M}}</ref>
<ref name=NGDC>{{citation|title=Significant Earthquake Database|url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/form?t=101650&s=1&d=1|author=National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS)|publisher=[[National Geophysical Data Center]], [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|NOAA]]|doi=10.7289/V5TD9V7K|year = 1972|type = Data Set}}</ref>
}}

==Further reading==
*{{citation|title=The Cachar earthquake of 1869|first=W. M.|last=Davis|authorlink=William Morris Davis|year=1883|journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]]|volume=ns-1|issue=3|page=67|doi=10.1126/science.ns-1.3.67|pmid=17814146|bibcode=1883Sci.....1...67D|jstor=1759469|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1448317}}

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