It is a path-breaking achievement for the institute as it is the country's first application for notifying people about earthquake alerts. ...

“Recurrent tremors of small magnitudes indicate a bigger earthquake,” said P K Khan, professor of the institute’s applied geophysics depart...

At present, there is no scientific technique available to predict the occurrence of earthquakes with reasonable degree of accuracy with reg...

China started to pay attention to early earthquake warnings after the 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan earthquake, which killed nearly 70,000 people.

Sensors in smartphones and other similar devices could be used to detect early ground movement to warn people about a potential earthquake.