In Latur and Dharashiv, people were asleep at 3:56 in the morning, indoors, under roofs of heavy stone set in mud. The quake was magnitude 6.2 s moderate, in a part of the continent long thought to be stable s but its focus sat only about ten kilometres down, so the shaking arrived hard and close, and those roofs came down on the rooms below. About 9,748 people died and roughly 30,000 were injured, in 1993.
Several of the villages were rebuilt a few kilometres off, on new ground, and the old sites were left with the trees and the wells and the odd wall still standing. People still walk back to them.
The seismic zoning map for India was redrawn after this. Latur sat in one of the lower-risk categories beforehand, on the reasoning that the Deccan was stable, and the revision moved a good deal of peninsular India upward.