Kath-Kuni: A young architect brings back the glory of his homeland's traditional architecture

Rahul Bhushan, a 29-year-old Himachali local and alumnus of CEPT is trying to bring back the glory of Kath-Kuni structures

‘Many seismic gaps in Himalayas capable of producing powerful earthquakes’

In an interview to Kundan Pandey, Supriyo Mitra, associate professor with the Department of Earth Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science …

Deep rumblings

Increase in incidence of earthquakes in Kerala, otherwise a seismically stable zone, is due to high sea pressure and changing land- use patterns

Earthquake of magnitude 5.5 hits Tripura; tremors felt in Assam, Bangladesh

The tremors caused by a shallow earthquake lasted for about a minute

8 million deaths, economic losses amounting to $7 trillion due to disasters since 1900

Floods accounted for 60 per cent of the economic losses and nearly half of the deaths

India's urban transformation

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Double victims

Latur earthquake victims being given false promises

Shaky revelations

Finding faults

Macroseismic and aftershock studies reveal a major seismic fault in Madhya Pradesh

Quake-proof reactor?

Taiwan earthquake

A massive earthquake rocks Taiwan

Tremor-monitoring

Town quarantined

Nature's fury unleashed

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Udhampur gets earthquake observatory

New seismological observatory will help further strengthen the region’s earthquake monitoring

Scientists image mysterious rock zone 3,000 km beneath Earth’s surface

They found that the speed of earthquake waves travelling through the base of the structure could be 40 per cent slower than the surrounding regions

Earthquakes hit Gujarat and Maharashtra

Four tremors hit Gujarat’s Saurashtra and Kutch regions early on January 20, while a 3.6 tremor hit Palghar near Thane in Maharashtra in …

Twelve years later, impact of Tsunami still makes waves

Down To Earth revists the causes of the massive earthquake that triggered tsunami 12 years ago and the progress scientists have made towards …

‘Faults inactive for long period could pose greater hazard’

Chan Lung-sang, professor at Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong, speaks to Kundan Pandey about the probability of a bigger …

It's all in the planets

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Building against odds

Despite a host of reasons against its constuction, Pakistan decides to go ahead with building the Diamer dam

Scientists find link between surges of cosmic radiation from space and earthquakes

Ability to predict specific locations remains unclear at present