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This earthquake occurred on 21 July, 1956. Considerable damage occurred at Anjar and a number of villages in the central mainland of Kutch 115 killed, hundreds injured, about 1,350 houses destroyed in Anjar alone and nearby 2,000 suffered minor damage. The earthquake felt as far as away as Bombay in the South, Hyderabad and Thar Parkar districts of Pakistan in the north, Lorwada railway station in the east, and extreme western end of Kutch in the west. The area of maximum damage was confined to about 2,000 sq. kms. in central mainland of Kutch.
The radius of perceptibility was about 330 km. The major axis of elliptical isoseismals plotted by Tandon shows a northeast-southwest orientation (Tandon, 1959 and Chandra, 1977). Based on felt reports the maximum MM intensity is IX, and the magnitude is 6.1 (PAS). The epicentral location is 23.0N, 70.0E
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