Indian earthquake halts diamond production.(Brief Article)

Diamond cutting all but ceased in India in the weeks following the devastating January 26 earthquake that may have claimed as many as 100,000 lives.

The 7.9-magnitude quake caused considerable damage in Ahmedabad, home to several hundred thousand cutters. In one polishing factory, 127 cutters were killed when the factory's walls caved in on them, the Associated Press reports. The quake had a lesser effect on the main diamond-cutting city of Surat, and almost no effect on the diamond dealing capital of Mumbai (Bombay.)

But work all over India stopped as peopl