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Quetta Bond is a technique developed after the Quetta earthquake, used in brick and other masonry buildings, where vertical reinforcement is used to improve horizontal and vertical bond between walls (see image)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171115224855/http://nidm.gov.in/easindia2012/PDF/Pres/Ses1/Pres1.pdf "Earthquake Risk Profile Risk Reduction & Technical Capacity in the EAS Member Countries"] by Sudhir K Jain. nidm.gov.in, now an archived webpage. Scroll down</ref>. "The Quetta Bond is simply a slight variant of [the brick laying technique] 1½ Flemish Bond where the voids are filled with concrete and steel reinforcement bars rather than brick. It was almost certainly invented (if that is the right word) by Royal Engineers. The RE was heavily involved in the aftermath of the Quetta earthquake".<ref>Guest, previously QGE. [httphttps://1914-1918www.invisionzonegreatwarforum.com/forums/index.php?org/topic/242967-quetta-bondrat-trap-bond-brick-buildings-help-please/&?do=findComment&comment=2443131 Quetta Bond/Rat Trap Bond: brick buildings-Help please] ''Great War Forum'' 12 September 2016. Retrieved 15 September 201626 March 2019.</ref>

*[http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/reg_in_india/india43_1.html shtml 1st Queen's Royal Surrey Accountsat Quetta - The Earthquake]queensroyalsurreys.org.uk*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090107093441/http://www.defencejournal.com/2002/sept/quetta.htm Down Memory Lane: Disaster at Quetta—The Great Earthquake of 1935] by Capt (Retd) A A Jilani. Extracts from the ''Royal Corps of Signals Journal UK''. defencejournal.com, now an archived webpage.

*Scroll down to an [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001203215/http://www.4fathers.thestoreshed.com/Maddocks/FrankGertrude.htm Account of the Quetta Earthquake] by Mrs F Maddocks, whose husband Frank Maddocks was attached to the Indian Army Ordnance Corps. Originally appeared in the ''North Devon Journal'' under the title "Quetta, City Of Sorrow". The Journal date given appears incorrect-possibly it may be March 14th, 1936. Maddocks Family History. Retrieved 23 October 2014 Now an archived webpage.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180214124235/http://www.qissa-khwani.com/2012/12/quetta-when-city-crumbled.html "Quetta: When a city crumbled"] qissa-khwani.com, now an archived webpage.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170427013816/http://balochistanarchives.gob.pk/exhibits/web_listview web_detailview/11#exibits Images: Quetta earthquake 1935] including a map of “Disposition Of Troops for Rescue Work” 31 May 1935. Balochistan Archives, now an archived webpage. Click on photographs to enlarge.*[https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/blog/come-fly-with-me-raf-india/ "Come fly with me: Early days of the RAF in India"] by Pat Ellingham March 22, 2019. bristolmuseums.org.uk. Information about the films made by Leonard de Ville Chisman late 1920s/1930s including on the North West Frontier. These films are now in the Bristol Archives British Empire and Commonwealth Film collection/ Chisman (ref. [https://becc.bristol.gov.uk/records/2006/005 2006/005]). Currently (2021/06) there are some digitised films viewable online, ref. [https://becc.bristol.gov.uk/records/2006/005/1 2006/005/1] but no digitised photographs, the latter seems to include “The sequence documenting Quetta both before and after the great earthquake of 1935 [which] are of particular interest.“

*[http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1785962?uid=3737536&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21103564282037 "The Quetta Earthquake"] by C P Skrine ''The Geographical Journal Volume 88, No. 5, November 1936'', pages 414-428 may be read online for free by registering for a MyJSTOR account. For more details see [[Miscellaneous tips]]. Also available [https://archive.org/details/sim_geographical-journal_1936-11_88_5/page/414/mode/2up Archive.org]*[httphttps://wwwbooks.scribdgoogle.com.au/doc/38485101/books?id=F4QRAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA203 "Preliminary Geological Report on the Baluchistan-(Quetta-EQ-) Earthquake of May31st, 1935". With Plates] by W D West, Assistant Superintendent, Geological Survey of India, page 203-31-1935 1241 ''Records of the Geological Survey of India'', Volume 69 1936. The Plates are some pages later in the book. Google Books.:[https://books.google.com. au/books?id=1onNQiIQ5hQC&pg=PA483 "A Seismological Study of the Baluchistan (Quetta) Earthquake of May 31,1935" ] by K.R. Ramanathan and S.M. Mukherji (1938): . Pages 483-513 ''Records of the Geological Survey of India'', Vol. 73, Part 4, Page 4831938, With Plates at the back of the book. Google Books.:The above two articles, in reverse order, are also available at [http://www.scribd.com/doc/38485101/Baluchistan-Quetta-EQ-May-31-5131935 scribd. 2com]. "Preliminary Geological Report on the Baluchistan (*''Burea Of Public Information Quetta) Earthquake of May 31st, 1935" by W''. 1935. Title as catalogued. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206892 Archive.Dorg mirror version], originally from Digital Library of India. West (1936): Probably the same publication [https: //dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35496 ''Quetta Earthquake, 1935''Records ] Bureau of the Geological Survey Public Information, Government of India, Delhi, 1935. Link to a pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527935 ''Seven Cantonments'', Vol] by Major SEG Ponder c 1938. Archive.org. LXIXThe author was an Officer in the Royal Artillery, Part 2with a R A Mountain Battery unit, Page 203 based on the North- 240West Frontier, including [[Peshawar] www], c 1930s.scribd.com* A section about Quetta commences [httphttps://wwwarchive.org/stream/in.newernet.dli.ernet2015.527935/2015.527935.Seven-cantonments#page/n159/mode/2up/ page 151].in*[https://handlearchive.org/2015details/206892 aclcpl0000021a316 ''Burea Of Public Information Earthquake Reconstruction on Quetta Earthquake 1935(Railway ) Division 1936 – 40''] 1935by R O C Thomson. 1940. Catalogued as "Reconstrucion". Archive. Pdf downloadorg, Anna Digital Library Collection, Government of India. Title as cataloguedTamil Nadu.