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A Comparative study on the Gujarat and
A Comparative study on the Gujarat and San Francisco earthquakes.

The Gujarat earthquake:
Gujarat is a state in the northwestern part of India. . Beneath India, the Indo-Australian and the Eurasian Plate are moving towards each other at about 2cm per year. At 08:46am local time, on Friday 26th January 2001 Gujarat was struck by an earthquake that measured 7.9 on the Richter scale (The strength of an earthquake).

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