The landscape of India has been divided into different earthquake zones based on the Modified Mercalli (MM) scale. The low-intensity zone that constitutes around 40.93% of the country falls in ...
He said India has five zones in view of the earthquakes and Zone 5 is the most dangerous among all the zones. Professor Malik said that Zone-5 consists of the Kutch, Andaman and Nicobar and Himalayan ...
efforts in releasing the Seismic Zoning Map of India. This map categories regions into risk zones II through V, determined by their respective risk levels. BIS Guidelines for Earthquake-Resistant ...
Uttarakhand lies in Zones IV and V of India’s earthquake zonation map. Pithoragarh, Bageshwar, Chamoli, and Rudraprayag districts, along with some areas of Almora, Champawat, Tehri, Uttarkashi ...
Dehradun: Three consecutive tremors, all within a four-hour gap, shook Uttarkashi town on Friday morning, triggering panic ...
The 2015 Nepal earthquakes caused significant destruction, leading to severe loss of life and infrastructure. Recently, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on January 7, 2025, near the Nepal-Tibet border ...