Walled against quakes
January 26, 2001, 6:34 am. The earth shook violently in Gujarat, clocking somewhere between 6.9 and 7.7 on the Richter scale. Residential apartments, offices, multi-storeyed structures cracked, collapsed and killed more than 40,000 people. More than 300,000 houses were completely destroyed. In the state capital Ahmedabad, most of the damage was in recently constructed structures. The 600-year-old walled city stood its ground