It caused considerable damage and casualties, especially in and around town of Anjar, India.

[2][3] It was estimated that more than 3,000 houses in 25 villages developed huge cracks, losses ran up to ₹10 million.

Such devastation wreaked by the quake made it one of the worst calamities to hit Kutch in the past 100 years.

The earthquake was followed by heavy rains, which added to the misery of thousands living in temporary camps.

[7] Anjar, which is a historic town and very congested in the old parts was largely destroyed in this earthquake of 1956.