India has released a sweeping new seismic zonation map under the revised Earthquake Design Code issued by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), placing the entire Himalayan arc in a newly created Zone ...

India is located on the northward-moving Indian tectonic plate. This plate is constantly colliding with the Eurasian plate. Because of this constant movement of the plates, the country faces the risk ...

Jammu and Kashmir has been placed in the country’s highest seismic risk category under a newly notified earthquake design code, the government informed the Assembly on Monday, signalling a major shift ...

All districts of Jammu and Kashmir are declared seismically vulnerable; schools, hospitals, bridges and tunnels are to ...

Dehradun: The Union govt's decision to roll back India's newly introduced seismic zonation map and revised earthquake design code has triggered concern among seismologists and geologists, many of whom ...

India plans a five-fold expansion of its seismometer network to boost earthquake warning lead time from just a few seconds ...

Almost all of India’s Himalayan arc has now been placed in the newly created Zone VI, the highest seismic-hazard category.