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Can Some Earthquakes Occur With No Surface Damage?Earthquake damage isn't solely determined by magnitude; factors like depth, local geology, and infrastructure resilience play crucial roles...
Tsunami: What is the Pacific 'Ring of Fire'?The Pacific Ring of Fire, a seismically active zone encircling the Pacific Ocean, is home to numerous earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and ...
After 6.4 magnitude jolt, six more earthquakes hit Assam's SonitpurAccording to NCS, the area is seismically very active falling in the highest Seismic Hazard zone V associated with collisional tectonics wh...
Undersea telecom cables can be used as earthquake monitoring networks: StudyThe researchers, including those from the University of California (UC) Berkeley in the US, recorded a 3.5 magnitude earthquake, and seismi...
China looks at an Indian to save itself from natural disastersGeophysicist Paramesh Banerjee will be the first Indian to head a Chinese scientific institution though many Indians scientists already wor...
New water mapping, oil extraction techniques by NGRICSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) Hyderabad is working on the new technology called Transient Heliborne electro-magnetic ...
ISR to set up 50 new seismic stations for earthquake analysisThese new seismic stations will have two major components-- Strong Motion Accelerograph (SMA) and another is Broadband Seismometer (BBS), s...
Predicting earthquakes is very much a work in progressAfter the dust settles on the tragedy, the current Nepal earthquake will provide an opportunity to advance our understanding of earthquake ...
Nepal earthquake: How defunct seismological instruments could make India payThe instruments were supposed to collect data for analysis by seismologists on the motion of the earth’s tectonic plates, which leads to ea...
India lost chance to record shocks as project to collect data for analysis lose fundingThe ministry of earth sciences, in collaboration with IIT-Roorkee, had decided to install 294 strong motion accelerographs in the north, no...
Quake wake-up call for government; need better building technology: ExpertHe stressed on the need for advancements in construction technology so that buildings may be designed to withstand the impact of such natur...