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On 6th July, 1505 AD, very strong and violent earthquake occurred
over the whole of Hindustan that the hills began to tremble, while strong
and lofty buildings fell to dust and the earth in places. Cleft and cracks
appeared, while villages were deserted. The city of Agra became the goal
of several successive aftershocks. The hills began to shake and lofty and
solid buildings were razed to ground. It seems that apart from Agra, the
cities of Gwalior, Dholpur, Mathura and Delhi were affected by this
earthquake and its influence extended in the whole of the north-west India
and to Afghanistan. The epicentral location of this catastrophic
earthquake is 27.2N, 78.0E. The MM intensity of the earthquake at Agra
might be XII (Iyengar and Sharma, 1998).
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