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A violent earthquake shocked the area in the vicinity of fort of Mandarana on 4th June, 1669. The epicentral location of this event is 22.9N, 87.7E which is very near to Garh Mandaran. The maximum MM intensity is about IX Iyengar and Sharma (1998) have reportd this uncatalogued distructive earthquake in their report. There appeared a crack of 44 yards in length, 2 yards width on the ground and depth of the fissure was about 600 yards (surface rupture depth). After a few days, the crack joined together and topographic of the land changed all of a sudden. The earthquake created large number of fissures but damage is not recorded. Burdwan, Vishnupur, Bankura and west Hubli were reported to be affected largely.
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