The village in Nilanga tehsil is located 28 km from Killari where a deadly earthquake killed 9,700 people in 1993.

A 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...

On Saturday, the quake measured 4.4 on the Richter scale in Vijayapura bordering Maharashtra, and there was another tremor of 1.8 this morn...

Responding to another question, Singh said land measuring around 174 hectares in an L-shaped configuration (with each arm of the L being 4 ...

Dr Sandip Som, the deputy director general of GSI, also said that foreshocks -- mild tremor preceding earthquakes -- or swarm activities --...

The high density of population and a large number of high-rises in Gurgaon make the National Capital Region all the more risky.

A majority of these places are in the Himalayas, one of the most seismically active regions in the world. These cities have a combined popu...

A moderate 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Uttarakhand on the night of February 6. As usual, there was the news rush -- breaking news, special...

The project is to come up in Ratnagiri district where French firm Areva will set up six nuclear reactors with a total power generation capa...

The warning could be the issued some seconds before the earthquake strikes. India is also planning to launch a satellite to track the chang...

The Bureau of Indian Standards has grouped the country into four seismic zones, from Zone V, the most active, to Zone II, the least active.

"We will carry out boring in the Koyna region of Maharashtra soon after monsoon," Union earth sciences secretary Shailesh Nayak told TOI.

Geologists are working towards setting up a mini-lab eight km underground near the seismically active Koyna region in Maharashtra.

India is stepping up its research capapilties to pick up early signals of an impending earthquake by setting up an network of observatories.

An amber light is flashing on the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power plant with the project expected to proceed only after apprehensions raise...

Despite the potential nuclear catastrophe in Japan, Russia has ruled out any delay in Moscow's nuclear power expansion programme with India.

The prime minister had assured Parliament on Monday that the country's nuclear power reactors were safe.