Bhuj




January 26, 2001, M7.7 Earthquake
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Available Information
The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute dispatched a team of scientists and engineers to study the impacts of the 7.7 Bhuj Earthquake that devastated the State of Gujarat, India on January 26, 2001. Funded by the National Science Foundation as part of EERI’s Learning from Earthquakes Program, EERI’s joint India/US team was led by structural engineering Professor Sudhir Jain, India Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and geologist William Lettis, William Lettis and Associates, Walnut Creek, California. The team included earth scientists, civil and structural engineers, and an Indian government official. The nine U.S. team members spent ten days in the field with their Indian counterparts in an investigation of the impacts of the earthquake on the built environment, lifelines, port facilities, emergency response, shelter and interim housing. The team began their reconnaissance investigation in the city of Ahmedabad, and then moved to the more severely damaged epicentral areas. The preliminary report and photos are posted below.
EERI REPORTS
- Reconnaissance Team Reports
- Special Earthquake Report from the April 2001 Newsletter [PDF]
- Article on Recovery from the November 2003 Newsletter [PDF]
- 2001, Bhuj, India Earthquake Reconnaissance Report CD-ROM, contains more than 400 images as well as the full text of the 398 page Earthquake Reconnaissance Report
- Earthquake Rebuilding in Gujarat, India, written by a small recovery reconnaissance team this 128-page report documents observations on the substantial recovery program in Gujarat following the 2001 Bhuj Earthquake
- Earthquake Spectra Articles
- Bhuj, India, Earthquake of January 26, 2001, Reconnaissance Report, Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 18, no. S1, July 2002, pp. 1-398
- Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT) Field Report – British earthquake engineers, architects and academics from the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)
- 2001 Bhuj, India, Earthquake Images CD-ROM, contains over 400 images illustrating the effects of the Bhuj Earthquake