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On 15 August 1950, communities across India were marking Independence Day – the third such commemoration since gaining independence from the British Empire in 1947. At 7:39pm, a large earthquake struck, the epicentre of which was in the Mishmi Hills of present-day Arunachal Pradesh, near Tibet. It measured 8.69 in magnitude and is the world’sContinue reading “Independence Day Earthquake in Assam, 1950”