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this earthquake was felt on the 19th of June;, 1845, at Lulqrat. It shook 

 down j)ai't of the walls of the fort, and some lives were lost. At the 

 same time the sea rolled up the Koree, overflowing the country westward 

 to the Goongra river, twenty miles ; northward to beyond Veyre, forty 

 miles from the mouth of the Koree ; and eastward to the Sindree Lake, 

 which is stated to have become a salt marsh, but, on a map bearing date 

 the same year, to be constantly under water to the depth of from 1 to 

 4 feet. From the 19th to the 25th, 66 shocks were counted, and 

 much damage was done, nothing remaining of Kotree ; on the Sind side 

 of the river opposite to Lukput, except ' a few small buildings on a bit 

 of rising ground,' of Veyre and other villages, only the remains of a 

 few houses were to be seen ; and Lak was totally submerged, nothing 

 being above water but a flagstaff. At this time there were said to be 

 generally two earthquakes in every year at Lukput.* 



It was thought probable that a subsidence of the land accompanied 

 this catastrophe, but there, is nothing to show that the inundation 

 was not caused by a great sea wave such as has frequently occurred in 

 connexion with earthquakes. 



The only other and latest authentic record of an earthquake in this 



province is of one which occurred on the 30tli of 



aitiqua-e, •. April 1864. It was chiefly felt in Wagir.— (From 



information supplied by Colonel Shortt, Political Agent, Kutch). It 



was also felt at Ahmadabad and Surat. 



Earthquakes and volcanos proceeding from similar causes, a connexion 

 may once have existed between the occurrence of the volcanic rocks of 

 Kutch and the deep seated sources of its earthquake phenomena. The 

 fact, however, that earthquakes rarely occur in the immediate vicinity of 

 active eruptions would cast doubt upon the assertion that something of the 



* None of the villages above named, except Kotree, are marked upon any map to which 

 access can be bad. The river Goongra may, perhaps, be that elsewhere called the Pinjaree 

 or Seer ; Veyre or Vaerr may be a village in Sind, 24 miles west of Lukput on the road to 

 Mograbi. 



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