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Two back-to-back tremors hit Palghar in Maharashtra; no casualtyTwo tremors of magnitude 3.4 struck Maharashtra’s Palghar district within an hour on Monday night, officials said. The earthquakes occurred...- Nashik hit by 4.3-magnitude quake, tremors trigger cracks in housesA 4.3 magnitude earthquake struck Nashik on Saturday night, followed by a tremor early Sunday. Tremors were felt across several talukas, ca...
- Mild tremor hits Maharashtra's Chandrapur; no casualtyA 3.2 magnitude tremor shook Maharashtra's Chandrapur district on Wednesday night, according to officials. The seismic activity, which occu...
- Mysterious underground sounds at Latur village, experts to probeThe village in Nilanga tehsil is located 28 km from Killari where a deadly earthquake killed 9,700 people in 1993.
- Geologists allay fears over tremors, say Deccan Plateau is safe zoneA series of seismic activities in parts of Karnataka are not major ones, hence there was no need to worry because the Deccan Plateau is a s...
- Geologists allay fears over tremors, say Deccan Plateau is safe zoneOn Saturday, the quake measured 4.4 on the Richter scale in Vijayapura bordering Maharashtra, and there was another tremor of 1.8 this morn...
- No incident of radioactive leakage from any nuclear power plant in India in last 3 years: GovernmentResponding to another question, Singh said land measuring around 174 hectares in an L-shaped configuration (with each arm of the L being 4 ...
- Foreshocks, swarms caused recent earthquakes in India, says Geological Survey of India officialDr Sandip Som, the deputy director general of GSI, also said that foreshocks -- mild tremor preceding earthquakes -- or swarm activities --...
- Earthquake: Know the riskiest and the safest places in DelhiThe high density of population and a large number of high-rises in Gurgaon make the National Capital Region all the more risky.
- 29 Indian cities highly vulnerable to earthquakes; check if your city is in the listA majority of these places are in the Himalayas, one of the most seismically active regions in the world. These cities have a combined popu...
- Disruption of TV signals, mobiles may help predict earthquakes (Comment)A moderate 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Uttarakhand on the night of February 6. As usual, there was the news rush -- breaking news, special...
- Greenpeace asks PM Narendra Modi to review approval to Jaitapur projectThe project is to come up in Ratnagiri district where French firm Areva will set up six nuclear reactors with a total power generation capa...
- India working with 27 countries on earthquake early-warning systemThe warning could be the issued some seconds before the earthquake strikes. India is also planning to launch a satellite to track the chang...
- In India, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand fall under most active seismic zoneThe Bureau of Indian Standards has grouped the country into four seismic zones, from Zone V, the most active, to Zone II, the least active.
- Experts to drill in Maharashtra to study tremors"We will carry out boring in the Koyna region of Maharashtra soon after monsoon," Union earth sciences secretary Shailesh Nayak told TOI.
- Research programme to study earthquake precursors: President Pranab MukherjeeGeologists are working towards setting up a mini-lab eight km underground near the seismically active Koyna region in Maharashtra.
- India steps up R&D to monitor earthquake precursors: IMDIndia is stepping up its research capapilties to pick up early signals of an impending earthquake by setting up an network of observatories.
- Govt likely to go slow on Jaitapur N-plantAn amber light is flashing on the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power plant with the project expected to proceed only after apprehensions raise...
- Reactors in India four times safer: RussiaDespite the potential nuclear catastrophe in Japan, Russia has ruled out any delay in Moscow's nuclear power expansion programme with India.
- No rethink on Jaitapur N-plantThe prime minister had assured Parliament on Monday that the country's nuclear power reactors were safe.
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