At greater risk

A stitch too early

Quake survivors face infected wounds

Waste not, want not

Fourteen tonnes of UK's nuclear waste lands at an earthquake-vulnerable site in Japan

Lots of zeal and money

But Gujarat has not laid a sound foundation to manage disasters after the 2001 earthquake

If the earthquake wasn't enough

Survivors in Pakistan now risk unsafe blood transfusion

After the earth quaked

Hunger leads to looting as survivors of the January 25 earthquake that devastated Colombia pick up whatever is left of their lives

Death tremors

Tehri on, regardless

Is the recent incident at the dam site an indication of things to come?

Temblor trauma

Japan's most ferocious earthquake in 50 years flattened the latest perceptions and innovations of safety

Learning from the Gujarat quake

It is more than two years since the terrible earthquake struck Gujarat. In this period the catastrophe-struck areas have witnessed rehabilitation …

Trunks from houses

Quick worker

Promising earthquake warning system tested

IMPENDING DANGER

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Shaky foundation

Seismic zoning map for the country underestimates risk

Quaking, 1108 aftershocks later

The Indian plate is underthrusting the Eurasian plate by 4 to 5 centimetres a year. But our scientists move even slower. Are they waiting for the …

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"Psychosocial care should be a component of overall health care"

K SEKAR, assistant professor, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, talks to NEELAM SINGH about …

Power Point

Experts have given conflicting reports on the Tehri dam

Deluge

A dark tunnel

Twenty-nine workers were killed in a landslide at the Tehri dam. The contractor building the dam has blamed the "weak mountains" for …

Still life in waves

The visual media is into the business of producing images. Sometimes, just sometimes, they become iconic. For disasters there is a recognisable …

What caused Morocco’s earthquake? A geologist studying the Atlas mountains explains

Steep slopes of the mountains and the straight lines where the Earth’s crust has cracked suggest that there has been recent movement in the …

New studies reveal insights about Earth’s mysterious mantle

Mantle makes up the largest part of Earth; there’s still a lot we don’t know about it

Bowels of the Earth: Meet the planet’s new layer, the innermost inner core

The idea that the Earth could hold a fifth layer was proposed in 2002; since then, researchers have been trying to get more data to learn about …