Discussion
The 1993 Killari earthquake in Latur district is significant for seismic zoning because it occurred in
Answer: C
Correct answer: an area then classified as the lowest hazard zone
Killari lies in the stable peninsular shield, far from any plate boundary, and the pre-2002 map placed it in Zone I - the lowest category, where little was expected.
The earthquake killed around ten thousand people, in buildings designed on the assumption that shaking would be negligible. Together with the Jabalpur earthquake of 1997, also in central peninsular India, it showed that intraplate earthquakes can be damaging where none was anticipated, and it led directly to the abolition of Zone I in the 2002 revision.
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