January 10, 1869 Earthquake: Cachar,silchar, Assam, India
An earthquake struck Cachar,silchar, Assam, India on January 10, 1869. It killed 2 people.
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Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Date
- January 10, 1869
- Place
- Cachar,silchar, Assam, India
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 24.500° N, 92.500° E
- Country
- India
The toll
- Deaths
- 2
- Damage
- Severe (about $5 to $25 million)
- Houses destroyed
- Very many (over 1,000)
- Houses damaged
- Many (101 to 1,000)
Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
Reference #1185:
At Silchar, all the pucka (properly constructed) buildings belonging to the Department of Public Works have been damaged beyond the possibility of repair, in addition, most of kutcha (makeshift) buildings have been entirely thrown down. The store-shed has fallen and several articles have been damaged or destroyed. Two people were killed.
At Sylhet[...]The steeple of the church was shattered in all directions, two pinnacles fell and two were shifted. Court houses and circuit bungalow heavily cracked.
Reference #12815:
The January10, 1869, Cachar-Manipur earthquake is referred as the most severe earthquake in the available 2000 years of written historical records of Manipur state of India. However, recent examinations of the historical records suggest that even this earthquake was not a great earthquake and the damage was very much confined in the sediment filled valleys of Imphal and Cachar (Kundu and Gahalaut 2012).
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- September 9, 1923, Mymensingh, Bangladesh
- December 30, 1984, Assam, Cachar District, India
- January 3, 2016, Impahl, India
- January 3, 2017, Ambasa, Bangladesh, India
- February 6, 1988, Tipura-Assam, Sylhet, India, Bangladesh
- July 26, 2003, Rangamati, Bangladesh
- February 15, 2005, Khaspur, India
- December 9, 2004, Hailakandi, Cachar, India
- February 4, 1961, India
- June 30, 1868, Sylhet, Bangladesh
- July 8, 1918, Srimangal, Bangladesh
- December 10, 1846, India
- May 11, 2012, Kamrup, Guwahati, Assam, India
- January 12, 2008, Rangamati, Bangladesh, India-Bangladesh
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Sources
Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 2150.