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Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. While an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the richter scale shook the city residents for nearly 40 second on Wednesday,another startling fact that it revealed was that despite being in seismic zone 4 category,the administration was ill-equipped to tackle such a natural disaster. With the epicentre of the earthquake being in Baderwah in Jammu and Kashmir,tremors were felt in north India and parts of Pakistan. This was the third quake in the last 15 days. During the earthquake,students of Sat Paul Mittal School,Tagore Public School,Kundan Vidya Mandir and BCM Arya Model were told to gather in the school ground. “We were made to wait outside for around half-an-hour,” said Rushank,a student of Sat Paul Mittal. “We were asked to leave for home,as panic was created,” said Kritika of Tagore Public School. As per the disaster management rules,when a calamity strikes,all the government departments,district and local level,have to work in tandem to manage the situation,and the deputy commissioner controls the rescue operation and issue orders to all the departments. The fire department and disaster management team play a major role,but unfortunately in case of Talking to He added,“In case of Ludhiana,we have four to five employees in the disaster management team under the research and rehabilitation department,but they are only for academic work,like preparing lists of equipment and vehicles required at the time of a...

Earthquake in Punjab: A moderate intensity earthquake which measured 3.8 on the Richter scale hit the Ludhiana-Sangrur Border Region. The mild tremors were felt at 5.15 PM in the evening on Thursday. As of now, no loss of life or property has been reported. Earlier this month, a magnitude 7.3 quake struck along the Iran-Iraq border, killing 530 and injuring more than 9,000. Iran is prone to daily quakes as it sits on many major fault lines. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 quake with a depth of 7 kilometres flattened the historic city of Bam, killing 26,000 people. Earlier this month, mild tremors were felt in a small area near the hi-tech city Hyderabad on November 16 at 8.50 am. The tremors were of “very very low intensity”, said NGRI chief scientist D Srinagesh. He further said, “These are very very mild tremors known as ultra microearthquake…there is no need to worry.” ‘Blind hatred for Modi cannot be sole agenda’: BRS reveals why KCR gave up on Opposition unity long ago Vinod K Gaur, a professor at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bengaluru, stressed on the need to create awareness so that quake-resistant building techniques are adopted by the people at the grassroots level. Handbooks can be published for general category houses and made available to all the people, he said. Noting that Uttarakhand was in the Central Seismic Gap where exists a high probability of a major earthquake, they said it was imperative for disaster mitigation agencies and the state government t...

Tribune News Service Vijay Mohan Chandigarh, June 14 The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has initiated a pioneering project to compile an inventory for earthquake-induced landslides and understand the underlying factors causing such landslides. An atlas of earthquake-induced landslide susceptibility will also be published. Large parts of the country are seismically vulnerable and prone to earthquakes, which have triggered landslides in many places. Such events have taken a heavy toll on life and property as well as caused environmental damage. Under a two-year project, an area of about 1,000 square kilometres around Nako in north-eastern Himachal Pradesh will be surveyed, according to GSI sources. The area falls under Zone 5 of the seismic zonation map of India, which is the most vulnerable. According to GSI officials, predicting the place and conditions under which earthquakes are likely to trigger landslides are key elements in regional seismic hazard assessment. Susceptibility assessment is critical for prevention and reduction of such incidents as well as for disaster management and reconstruction in affected areas. An earthquake magnitude of greater than 4 and intensity of VI is required for generation of an earthquake-induced landslide. The mechanism of triggering such landslides is complex and is an active ongoing research subject. When an earthquake occurs, the transmission of seismic waves can cause shaking and vibration of the ground surface, which can trigger t...