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KEEPING IN view high seismic activities on the Indian plate and dangers of high magnitude earthquakes in future, Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology (MAPCOST) has decided to initiate ...

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Dec. 22: With the city in the high–risk seismic zone, a “microzonation” map is under preparation to give the residents the precise data on their respective area’s vulnerability to earthquakes. The map ...

OVER the next ten years, seismic microzonation studies will be conducted in ten different cities/towns throughout Trinidad and Tobago. Simply put, seismic microzonation determines how the ground will ...

The city lies in seismic zone IV, making it highly vulnerable to quakes, but till date, the Meerut authorities have not drafted its seismic microzonation map (SMM), based on which a response system ...

The latest advancement in regional mapping of earthquake hazards is the inclusion of local seismic site effects into seismic hazard prediction, also known as seismic microzonation mapping. These site ...

Urban planning experts have asked town planners and administrators in Delhi and NCR to learn their lessons quickly from the Nepal earthquake and map areas according to their susceptibility to damage ...