The Bhuj, India, Earthquake of January 26, 2001

Preliminary Report of the India-US Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Reconnaissance Team
Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation in collaboration with the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the Mid America Earthquake (MAE) Center

• Introduction
• Reconnaissance flight
• Damage to towns and villages
  • Anjar
  • Bhachau
  • Bhuj
• Damage to dams
• Damage to ports
  • Kandla
  • Navlakhi
  • Adani
• Damage to bridges
  • Surajbari bridges
  • Highway 8A bridge
• Ground failure, liquefaction and cracking
  • South of Chang dam and North of epicenter (February 17, 2001)
  • East of Lodai
  • Rann of Kachchh (February 16, 2001)
  • Rann of Kachchh (February 18, 2001)

• GIS database server of photos from post-earthquake reconnaisance
• Videos from earthquake reconnaisance

Additional Information

• Main information
• Photos from the earthquake
• Useful links