Word: saurashtra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most disastrous accident ever to befall India. In the midafternoon of a torrentially rainy Saturday, the 197-ft.-high earthen Machhu dam in western India's Gujarat state suddenly burst open. The waters behind it boiled six miles down a river in the state's Saurashtra district and crashed into Morvi, a semi-industrial town of 75,000, known as "the Paris of Saurashtra" because of its many green parks and broad avenues. Mud houses were entirely swept away, brick and concrete buildings were smashed, and just about everything else was buried under a layer of ooze almost...