The National Center for Seismology (NCS) will fee 35 new stations by December, taking the energy of seismological community to 150, Lok Sabha was knowledgeable on July 23.
In a written response to a query, Earth Sciences Minister Jitendra Singh mentioned extra 100 new stations will probably be put in by March 2026.
The NCS, underneath the Ministry of Earth Science, is the nodal company of the federal government for monitoring and to examine earthquakes in and across the nation. For this function, the NCS maintains a National Seismological Network (NSN) consisting of 115 observatories unfold throughout the nation.
The community is able to recording any occasion of magnitude 5 and above in and round New (*35*), magnitude three and above for northeast area, magnitude 3.5 in and above in peninsular, magnitude 4 and above within the Andaman area and magnitude 4.5 and above in border areas.
In order to spatially densify the hole areas and to enhance the magnitude detection threshold down to magnitude three within the nation, 35 new stations have been deliberate within the nation and set up is already in progress.
It can be deliberate to strengthen the National Seismological Network additional by including 100 seismic stations within the subsequent 5 years to improve the detection functionality of earthquake up to magnitude 2.5 all through the nation.
“All the 35 new stations shall be commissioned and will start functioning by December 2021. Thus, the strength of National Seismological Network will increase to 150 by December 2021. Subsequently, additional 100 new stations will be installed by March 2026,” Mr. Singh mentioned.
Responding to a separate query on prediction of earthquakes, he mentioned, there isn’t a confirmed scientific approach obtainable, anyplace on the earth, to predict or forecast prematurely the incidence of earthquakes with the cheap diploma of accuracy with regard to area, time and magnitude. No nation has the potential of predicting the incidence of earthquakes prematurely.
However, analysis efforts are made in India and elsewhere for growing an Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) System, to alert folks as soon as an earthquake happens based mostly on the arrival time of P-wave of the Earthquake.
The warning time, nonetheless, is far shorter and of the order of some seconds. The robustness and success price of such warning system are to be assessed totally earlier than the system will be thought of for actual time operations, he mentioned.
