“We cannot predict time, place or exact scale, but do believe that there is a consistent seismic activity going around in the NCR region and can trigger in a major earthquake in Delhi,” says Dr K Sain
Current Affairs : Ten low to direct force tremors shaking Delhi-NCR in the range of one and a half month show that a ground-breaking seismic tremor could strike India’s National Capital in not so distant future, caution a portion of the top geologists of the nation.
“We can’t anticipate time, place or precise scale, however accept that there is a predictable seismic action going around in the NCR locale and can trigger in a significant tremor in Delhi,” said Dr Kalachand Sain, Chief of Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, a head self-sufficient organization, run under Union Ministry of Science and Technology.
Shockingly, Delhi falls under high-chance seismic zones and its bordertowns are observer to mushrooming development of skyscraper private structures, a lot of them which don’t cling to required rules of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) set for tremor safe development.
What might occur if a seismic tremor of extent 5.5 or 6.0 hits the NCR? Answering to this oftentimes posed inquiry, Professor Chandon Ghose of IIT-Jammu, a specialist on seismic tremor designing stated, “Friday’s (May 29) twin tremors which shook Delhi were estimated at 4.5…but had it been somewhat more extraordinary, the effect would have been not kidding. At Richter scale 6.0, the impact of the quake in Delhi would be annihilating. Numerous structures would be wrecked to tidy.”
Aditi Mehta 