Representational image of a waveform seismograph registering a minor seismic motion.
| Photo Credit: through Reuters
India plans to establish 100 extra observatories within the subsequent two to three years to additional improve seismic monitoring capabilities, Earth Sciences Minister Jitendra Singh informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
In a written reply, Mr. Singh mentioned the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) maintains a network of 152 observatories for monitoring of seismic exercise in and across the nation.
He mentioned the National Seismological Network has a detection functionality down to magnitude 3.0 earthquake for many elements of the nation.
Mr. Singh mentioned pure disasters are triggered by pure processes and never at all times affected by the human penalties. However, vulnerability of any area is at all times affected by non-engineered buildings, he mentioned.
“Thus, there is a need to devise proper mitigation strategies by adopting scientific and engineering solutions to reduce the associated risks,” the Minister mentioned.
He mentioned seismic microzonation examine was necessary because it helps generate inputs for establishing earthquake-resilient buildings/infrastructures/dwellings to cut back and mitigate the impacts of earthquake shaking and for minimising the damages to buildings and lack of lives for safer city planning.
