Quetta is the capital and largest city of what is now Baluchistan Province of Pakistan. In 1935 it was a major British cantonment city with 12,000 troops and a total population of around 70,000. At 3:03 AM on May 31st, an earthquake struck Quetta, reducing the city to rubble, destroying towns and villages to the south and leaving 30 to 60 thousa...
Created:
1935
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
Quetta is the capital and largest city of what is now Baluchistan Province of Pakistan. In 1935 it was a major British cantonment city with 12,000 troops and a total population of around 70,000. At 3:03 AM on May 31st, an earthquake struck Quetta, reducing the city to rubble, destroying towns and villages to the south and leaving 30 to 60 thousa...
Created:
1935
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
