-The Times of India NEW DELHI: As different governmental and non-governmental agencies prepare to move from rescue to rehabilitation phase in quake-struck Nepal, the father of India's green revolution M S Swaminathan on Tuesday called for adopting the Kutch model to mitigate the suffering of those affected in both countries. Referring to "habitation-cum-rehabilitation programme" of Kutch in Gujarat that was ravaged by a powerful Earthquake in 2001, Swaminathan said the model involved...
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Experts gathered in Nepal a week ago
-AP An Earthquake had long been feared, not just because of the natural seismic fault, but because of the local, more human conditions that made it worse. Nepal’s devastating Earthquake was the disaster experts knew was coming. Just a week ago, about 50 Earthquake and social scientists from around the world had come to Kathmandu to get the area to prepare better for a big Earthquake. “It was sort of a nightmare waiting to...
More »Thirty-eight Indian cities in high-risk Earthquake zones
-IANS NEW DELHI: At least 38 Indian cities lie in high-risk seismic zones and nearly 60 percent of the subcontinental landmass is vulnerable to Earthquakes. Barring rare exceptions, such as the Delhi Metro, India's hastily-built cities are open to great damage from Earthquakes. The Earthquake that devastated Nepal on saturday and jolted northern India, damaging buildings as far apart as Agra and Siliguri, was expected by geologists, who have warned of more...
More »After Nepal quake, India may be next: Experts -Trina Joshi
-IANS In the wake of the strong 7.9 magnitude Earthquake that killed over a 1,500 people in Nepal and left a swathe of devastation in the northern Himalayas on Saturday, experts said a temblor of equal intensity is "overdue in northern India." "An Earthquake of the same magnitude is overdue. That may happen either today or 50 years from now... in the region of the Kashmir, Himachal, Punjab and Uttrakhand Himalyas. Seismic...
More »Bihar’s Earthquake toll due to poor condition of houses -Anupam Srivastava
-Down to Earth Census data shows Bihar among the three states with lowest proportion of houses which can be categorised ‘good’ What made Bihar vulnerable to the Nepal Earthquake and led to the reported deaths of 38 persons in the state? Proximity to Nepal and, therefore, the epicenter is certainly a primary reason. The other major reason is the condition of houses in the state. Almost all the deaths due to an...
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